Word: whydunnit
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...search of him. It soon becomes clear that his son was murdered and dismembered near a military base where he was temporarily reassigned, the chief suspects being four buddies with whom he served overseas. But In the Valley of Elah is not so much a whodunit as a whydunnit, an investigation of why a group of quite ordinary American soldiers would find themselves involved in such a brutal and essentially meaningless crime...
Like much of Spark's writing, The Driver's Seat has some of the elements of a thriller, but there is no real suspense. In fact, the book is like the paperback Lise carries around with her, which she describes as "a whydunnit in q-sharp major." The reader knows that Lise is crazy from the moment she stalks out of a shop because the salesgirl has told her the preposterous garment she wants is "stain-resistant." The fact that she will be stabbed to death is announced portentously on page...
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