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It is hard not to love the blunt detective, keen on her food and relishing her private space. The wonderfully created character of Vera solves another crime against the odds. Hannah’s disbelief that this man should find her attractive mesmerises her into consenting to a terrifying series of events. Life is all about those chance encounters, the what ifs, how so much of life turns in a second. In the books I have read, that is how they seem. I think this author completely masters this idea. The ‘ripple’ effect, as I call it, is devastating for them all. The repercussions fo that first touch on Hannah’s life and that of her family are the subject of the story, brilliantly told. , is abusive towards Hannah and I don’t think it gives the game away to say, despite that, she returns for more. She goes on to meet him at a hotel in the city.

She embarks upon an affair with an unknown man, whom she has met at a reception and who touched her wrist suggestively. But all is not well and Hannah feels neglected by her husband and to some extent unneeded by her children. She has a housekeeper, Ismelda, and should be content. All the neighbourhood is terrified and keeps their children close. However, eventually the killer strikes in her safe suburban, well to do neighbourhood.

FINGALS CAVE SNAKE QUEST SERIAL

That background story concerns a serial child killer, which a first seems distant to our main character, Hannah. This novel, her latest, has, as its background, A true sequence of events in Detroit which happened when she was a resident in the 1970’s. Joyce Carol Oates is a favourite writer of mine, although I have not read all of her prolific output. Below is a list of the books I have read over the last eight years, some of which have been discussed on BBC Three Counties radio.

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