Review: Marriage Is Murder by Robert Mccracken

Marriage Is Murder by Robert McCracken
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Charlie Geddis is not having a very good day,one year,three weeks and five days after his wife Barbara finally had enough of his behaviour and threw him out he has decided to make one last attempt at getting her to understand that he has changed his ways and is ready to return home.He lets himself into his house only to find Malcolm Palmer,rich,smart,handsome and very naked so obviously he is not there just to have a cup of tea.Obviously Charlie is not very happy about this and sets out to prove that Malcolm is not the nice person that everyone thinks he is and could also be linked to a murder which unfortunately was only witnessed by Charlie who was not exactly sober at the time.

Charlie is not exactly a likeable character but some of his thoughts and the situations that he gets into during his quest to get Barabara to take him back and at the same time save his hometown of Ballymenace are very funny.He just doesn't seem to grasp that if he stopped drinking,actually did some work and stopped trying to sleep with other women he might actually stand a small chance of sorting his life out but then again in Charlie's mind nothing is ever his fault.

There might be a murder in the story but the book is all about Charlie and his everyday problems most of which are caused by his own actions.Its not a fast paced story and I will admit that I did give up on it a couple of times and read something else.There is some very funny lines that made me laugh out loud and the ending was good because all the loose ends were tied up.My only complaint would be that there was one characters story that I personally wish had been ended differently.

As a Liverpool supporter I didn't fail to notice Stevie Gs cameo in this book and the fact that Charlie had a Man United duvet cover which obviously means the author is a Man U supporter and because of that I don't think I will be reading any more of his books in the future....lol

Many thanks to publishers Endeavour Press for a arc of this book via netgalley