Review: Twisted plot holds it's knots right to the end!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 15, 2014
For some reason the colour green of her childhood, of the grass, of emerald eyes, of Cedric  Dever's grey green eyes was amongst my first impressions.The colour green comes to represent the descent from softness and joy into the harsh and uncompromising reality of lost ways, of childhood nightmares, of fear and loss.Catherine Monsigny's past is shadowed even from herself.A rising young lawyer looking to make her mark, she takes on a murder case that unwittingly returns her to that lost time. Somehow her current case and the one just prior will merge and cross lines that terrify, intrigue and release forgotten childhood memories.Catherine's fears of not knowing her way, of having to mark her route for the simplistic of journeys harken back to her childhood trauma.What does the village of Creuse have to do with her past, her now and her future?As the story unfolds the complexities woven throughout reflect the layers that unfold as Catherine's story is revealed.Her pro bono case opens up more than she was prepared for.There does seem to be an underlying hint that she responds to the attentions of older men.As an aside French women and their motor scooters continue to fascinate me.I did not see the ending coming until it did.A tragic psychological mystery illuminated by the probing inner puzzlements of Catherine. It kept me guessing!A NetGalley ARC