Tangled Web UK Review February 2008
Steel Witches by
Patrick Lennon
hbk out March 08
Published by Hodder
at £19.99
Ex-cop turned private eye, Tom Fletcher, receives a bizarre phone call from his estranged father, a call which leads him to the murdered body of a young physics student who was moonlighting as a club hostess. Why was physics student Daisy so interested in the art painted on wartime aircraft, and how are Fletcher’s family connected to the mystery? Modern day conflicts have their roots in the distant past and Lennon plays on age old fears about witchcraft and persecution and spins marvellous depictions of the Fenlands and the spooky air-bases, old and new, that pepper the Fens. As the country is thrown into the grip of a ferocious winter storm, with freezing weather giving way to floods and a ‘psychlone’ on the way, the conspiracy thriller builds to a terrific climax. There is a breadth to the story that is captivating as well as some finely drawn characters and lovely language but the star must be the fantastic landscape as it is battered by the biggest storm in centuries.
(
Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder)
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