Review: I will never ride on a ferry
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 7, 2014
without thinking of this novel. The author, Stephen Puleston, had me rivited to every word from the first page and I wondered what was it about this book that it had the power to do that.First of all, the characters were human and appealing each in their own special way. The story line was intriquing and plotted to perfection...very tautly drawn and yet it gave the reader freedom to delve into his own mind for the answers and peer around the next corner for a possible suspect in the killings. The ferry boat which was the scene of the first murder,served as an anchor while the facts, suspects, suspicions, motives and clues swirled in the currents around it.Puleston is an artist at braiding together, yet keeping separate, Inspector Drakes home and work lives. A worried and nagging wife who wants him to be more involed with herself and their children and withholds the support he needs. At work, his new supervisor fights him tooth and nail at every turn in the investigation. Although trying to recover from a traumatic amd soul wrenching experience in which two of his officers were killed, Inspector Drake holds it all together...through his father's deadly illness, through his wife's coldness, putting up with his superiors and his haunting memories; he carries on until the crimes are solved.His words flow unceasingly from page to page, carrying you along in this fascinating tale set in a beautiful country, with well-defined fully fleshed out realistic characters and an author who, in my mind, puts himself in the reader's place and makes the book what it is. A remarkable mystery and a masterful police procedural, honed to perfection by Puleston, an author climbing higher on the ladder of success with each new contibution to the world of literature.