Review: Another home run from Mosiman
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2012
Mourning Mansion is a gritty story, and maybe some people would find it too much.  But, as always when reading Billie Sue Mosiman, I got so caught up in the story, so convinced by Mosiman's realistic and in-depth development of her characters, that I WANT to see the gritty side of life.  I want to know all about these people, from the runaway boys slinking along the edges of the night and selling their bodies, to the broken-hearted Jack DeShane, a cop who can't look the other way.  Ever.It's hard to pick a moment of this story, or even a character that particularly made me enjoy Mourning Mansion.  It's a pure joy from start to finish, and I loved finding out what happened to Jack DeShane after Wireman, Mosiman's wonderful novel about a serial killer and the cops who hunt him.All in all, Mourning Mansion is a sad tale, set in motion by a sick pedophile who builds himself a mansion where he can take advantage of the boys from the streets.  He draws them to the house with drugs and food and fun and they pay with their young bodies.  It's a very good metaphor for all the evil possibilities behind wealth.  Not all rich people are evil, of course, but money can provide the evil with the means to their wicked ends.  As the evil spirals on and on, it of course flies out of control, creating a house filled with such horrors, such evil, that Jack DeShane's intervention is the only solution.Mosiman never disappoints.  Her writing is tight, her words are perfectly placed and her stories are enthralling.