Review: A Story Of Desperation And Depravity.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 30, 2012
I've said it before and I'll say it again.  I've never read a story by Billie Sue Mosiman that I didn't like. (Heck, Love actually).  She has the most inventive mind for the strange. And a wonderful sense of character development.To me, characters make any story.  Sure you have to have a plot.  But, the action doesn't mean a thing if you don't care about the people in the story.  Billie Sue knows how to make each and every one of the characters she creates LIVE in your imagination."Mourning Mansion" is an excellent story of quiet Desperation on the parts of both the good guy and the bad boys.  I was blown away by the realism and detail.  But it always comes back to the characters.  I have known theses street kids, and since my brother and father were both in law enforcement, I also identify with the law in the character of Jack DeShane.  I first met Jack in Billie Sue's excellent novel "Wireman".  I thought that Wireman was the most intricate and real book I had ever read till I read this.If you like Dean Koontz and Stephen King, with a little old fashioned murder mystery mixed in, Go get this story.  You will love it.