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In the spellbinding tradition of Minette Walters and Ruth Rendell, author Julia Wallis Martin crafts an intelligent, atmospheric British suspense novel as engrossing as it is original.
An entire house, long submerged in the dark waters of a reservoir, unearths a starting find: the corpse of Helena Warner, an Oxford college student who disappeared twenty years earlier. For former homicide detective Bill Driver, it means the reopening of a case that, in his mind, was never really closed. And Driver thinks he knows who did it. But three of Helena's friends-her cold former lover Ian Gilmore, her jealous best friend Joan Poole, and talented but institutionalized artist Richard Wachmann-conspire to keep a decades-old, deadly secret from seeing the light of day...all the wile, a killer continues to strike again and again.
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William Flynn
reviewed A Likeness in Stone on April 05, 2014
A Likeness in Stone
Since moving into double digits many years ago, i've never really missed having pictures in the books I read...until now. While this is a solid, fast paced mystery that isn't quite as 'what you see is what you get' as it might appear for the first four fifths of the book, I can't help but think that to appreciate the full impact of the ending, it really should be on screen (as I know it has been). The ending left me somewhat hollow - so much so that I actually went back and re-read the last 20 or so pages thinking that I'd missed something. Not that I didn't get it - I just felt that the impact should have been more. Which is where the visual would, in this case, have triumphed over the word.
The other issue I have is with the characters. While I appreciate that characters require faults to make them seem more real, I couldn't actually find anything about any of them that I liked. There was no one I was invested in, that I wanted to see things done right by.
That said, it did keep my interest from start to finish and the story moves along at a great pace. I will give another one of the author's books a try and see how it compares.
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