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Christine Duncan boldly takes on a topic few writers want to address: the difficulties of living in a battered women's shelter.
Duncan's observations take what could be a tentative issue set in a nowhere town and make them three-dimensional. Anyone who lives where it snows a lot will nod knowingly at her comment on winter drivers. She captures the tension between the divorcing couple - memories of times before things went wrong and the familiarity that comes with knowing someone so well for so long, even if you can't stand them anymore. And of course, a mysterious fire kills a woman no one likes. Alibis are weak, suspects are many, but investigators think it's a suicide. Kaye digs deeper and deeper and instead of narrowing the possibilities, she finds more questions. Duncan weaves a great plot and her characters are people, not names. She doesn't rely on clichés or drawn-out descriptions to get her points across and the story itself moves right along. I'm glad to see that this is part of a planned series. The neat thing about this particular book: It's the first e-book I've reviewed. Safe Beginnings will be available from Dynamic Patterns in July. ISBN 1-894606-02-7 Price: $5.00 Format: HTML, Plain text Go To Page: 1
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