Considered "one of the masters of psychological fiction in America" (
San Francisco Chronicle), Kate Wilhelm serves up a chilling puzzle that will keep listeners captivated until the very end.
When Jud Connors, a successful writer, is found murdered in his isolated cabin in the woods of Oregon, his daughter Abby's world starts to fall apart. Who wanted her father dead and why? More puzzling is how anyone could have gotten to the cabin undetected. Was the murderer someone Jud knew?
As Abby embarks on her own investigation, she soon realizes that the clue to the murderer's identity is buried in her father's latest novel, finished just weeks before his death. But will she be able to see through the fiction in time—before the killer comes after her?
The murder of a parent is not easy to deal with. When your father is a novelist and you believe that the murder was not a random act but tied somehow to his current work in progress, what choice do you have but to dig into the manuscript to figure it out? Marguerite Gavin sets a brisk pace with her no-nonsense narrative style. Although Gavin does not develop unique voices for her characters for the most part, she differentiates them enough to make the dialogue easy to follow. Using a CD player on the computer with the free download MP3 software is not ideal, but it gets the job done and helps to make this format accessible to a wider range of listeners. J.E.M. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
