Billed as Australia’s answer to Patricial Cornwell and Kathy Reichs ~ I wonder in whose dreams? These two writers are far superior to Fox’s one dimensional story telling.
A body has been found in the ruins of a fire with a post mortem revealing that she had in fact been frozen before being burned, and that she had also probably given birth.
Detective Kate Farrer has recently returned to active duty after a harrowing kidnapping (previous novel), her new partner is not what he appears to be and her department is under investigation from the fraud squad. All this on top of trying to find a baby and it’s mother’s murderer.
This novel does deal with elements in today’s headlines – pedophilia, date rape and police fraud, however the story itself is very unbelievable and its delivery amateur. We are reminded constantly page after page that Kate must find the baby to the point where you want to scream “I know!” There are contradictory passages on the same page, and I found that reading this (a third book first) made it difficult to relate to character memories which kept cropping up from her previous novels.
Kathryn Fox is a local author and her first novel Malicious Intent apparently knocked The Da Vinci Code from its number one spot in Europe. I have bought this novel to see what the fuss is about and will read it in the New Year, so watch this space!
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