The Examiner

 The Examiner a mystery novel by Janice Hallett is one of the most confusing novels I have ever read.

I pushed so hard to work my way through it but in the end I did not really enjoy the book.  It was not a satisfying read.

Written as a series of text messages, email chains and private messages.  I found it extremely slow reading and even if you try to skim and read quickly it bogs the reader down.  

The premise is a graduate school design program, students have been recruited to thee program, hand picked it turns out by the professor.  They are mostly older working on a second career, having worked in other art fields.  Now they are tasked with working together to promote a company and their new launch as the assignment.  They are all on a Doodle share group talking to each other about the projects they are doing.  There are also private chat groups for different groups of the students and then private chats between the professor and certain students.  Somehow all these chains are saved and are being investigated and that is how the reader is privy to this story as it develops.  

A crime of some sort has taken place and there are hints of many mysterious circumstances have taken place.  But to this reader so much of this seems so obtuse that I could not get excited about what was being uncovered and could not relate to any characters.  

A very frustrating read and time wasted