Review: Good plot, alive with imagery and real people
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 18, 2010
Having traveled extensively in Australia I enjoy Vicki's novels for the images they evoke of that great country. And it's not the big things, it's the little things. The language, the diverse weather, and the people. That's what makes Vicki's novels so good - they're alive with imagery and real people.There are no ex-CIA super star heroes or heroines with never a hair out of place; just real people described really well.And then there're the stories. I was actually off mysteries as a genre, and I have to thank Vicki for getting me back into them; now I can't get enough.Here's the thing; you reading happily along and then... something happens that you didn't expect. So then you have to go back and check. Hmm, did this guy say that? Or where did she come from? Or what year was that? I found myself doing this more and more, the deeper I got in. And having done all that back and forth detective work on Ms Tyley's book - did I guess right? No :) of course not. Neither will you.Now if she made up some left field implausible ending I wouldn't be writing this review; the endings are always satisfying, plausible and when you then go back and check (dammit) all the clues were there.Edgy women, dodgy guys, normality skewed, set in vivid technicolor - works for me. I'm a fan what can I say...