kiarazard reviewed Vanished from Budapest by David Maughan
Not very realistic crime mystery
2 stars
Content warning Spoiler alert...
I found the beginning slow and the language a bit childish (short sentences, repeating the name on each line, for example), it got better later on but the plot was not credible.
How could Peter take the case without having Samantha's name or address? Normally there would be some investigation on her family at the start etc. and the hallucination would have been discovered straight away.
Another detail I found hard to believe was when Peter uses the Internet for the first time and immediately finds that the professor is not who he says he is. To do that he would have needed some sort of image recognition software, which I'm fairly certain was not available in an internet point in 2000.
