Colene A. (colene) reviewed on 7/19/2011 + 44 more book reviews

I'm a fan of the V.I. Warshawsky detective novels, and looked forward to this book as it has received some very good reviews. I was a bit disappointed. Too much going on: Sort of quasi religious mysteriosity in one silent and possibly psychotic character who was otherwise not really fleshed out, who was able to in essence raise another one from the dead, seemingly, and change the lives of others simply by touching them, etc. Another character sees the Virgin Mary (also mixed up with the silent charater) in a crack in a building exuding rusty water....and an uncaring grandfather who has somehow alienated all the women in his life except for a strange housekeeper. All in all I found this book distasteful and sophomoric.

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