Review: Death on a Sunny Afternoon
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2013
Can you smell trouble? Peggy Edelheit can. One day, as she sat on the terrace of her villa in the French Riviera, she stopped typing and sniffed the air. She smelt smoke.  Instinctively she knew this was no ordinary bonfire. This was trouble. Big trouble.What follows is her true-life description of the wildfire that came bearing down upon her and her family on that fateful day and their attempts to escape.This story has a particular interest for me, as I myself live in a wildfire area. I read it with a sense of mounting dread as the unthinkable happened to Peggy and her family. You make plans but you don't really believe it will happen to you. I found the narrative harrowing and gripping. When it was over I felt as if I myself had faced death on a sunny afternoon.Ms Edelheit's clear narrative style is easy to read. I imagine her fiction will be equally readable. I certainly intend to find out.