Tangled Web UK Review March 2007
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Lisa Gardner
pbk out October 07
(Orion)
at £6.99
A good 'whodunnit' from an experienced writer, with a plot that keeps
you turning the pages. Based in Boston – the American one – it tells a
strange story of a young woman whose father was a professor at MIT,
but from childhood she underwent a continuous series of sudden house
moves, her father driving them to city after city every year or two, every
time under a new assumed identity. With her parents dead, she never
discovered why, until in adult life, she returns to Boston and becomes
involved in a police investigation into a horrific discovery of six
children's bodies, mummified in an underground hideout in the grounds
of an abandoned mental hospital. The other side of the story concerns a
detective on the investigating squad, and the labours of the police team to
track down a thirty year-old serial rapist and killer.
Well-written and carefully structured, the book is well worth reading and
is not too voyeuristic about the sordid details, unlike so many other
writers who revel in sadistic shock tactics.
My only mild reservation is that perhaps towards the end, the author gets
a little too complicated with the permutations of possible perpetrators,
and introduces a new candidate a bit late in the story, but it does not
detract from an absorbing read.
(
Bernard Knight
ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series)
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