On the Shelf Troubled Blood By Robert GalbraithMulholland: 944 pages, $29If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. “Troubled Blood” confirms they do, in the person of a male serial killer known to have worn a dress. We learn about him from case notes and a couple of badly written books on the murders. And the real abomination in Rowling’s writing is not her treatment of a trans character, at least not in this book. In “Troubled Blood,” the endless pages are clouded instead by ambivalence.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 22, 2020 14:03 UTC