Tangled Web UK Review May 2009
The Warning Bell by
Tom Macaulay
hbk out May 09
Published by Orion
at £12.99
George Madoc turned his back on his son Iain after a boat trip when the boy was eight. Iain never knew what lay behind the rupture in the relationship. But when his mother dies, she leaves Iain a small box of keepsakes and as he tries to decipher their meaning he is drawn back into his fathers wartime years. George Madoc had commanded an RAF Air-Sea Rescue boat and had been involved in ferrying agents to and from occupied France. In April 1944 a mission went horribly wrong and George never spoke of it. His wrecked boat has now been recovered from the sea near the Breton village of St Cyriac and Iain goes there to try and piece together what happened. A fabulous read from Tom Macaulay (the pseudonym of an internationally best-selling author) with its authoritative view of a contemporary French village and its instructive but never over-facing depiction of the intricacies of life there during the occupation. What sets this apart is the skilful way Macaulay fuses the personal family stories with the wider mystery. As well as being an exhumation of past tragedy this is also the story of a man searching for his father. Intelligent and engaging.
(
Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder)
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