Books
by Minette Walters
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Disordered Minds |
Anthropologist Jonathan Hugues joins forces with councilor George Gardener (an elderly woman!) in an attempt to uncover yet another miscarriage of justice in England. In the 70's, Howard Stamp, a retarded 20-year-old, committed suicide in prison after having been convicted of brutally murdering his grandmother. It's a good read and it's interesting to note how skillfully, book after book, Minette Walters is able to paint such an assortment of different characters.
(Laurence Martin Euler - bwl 23 April 2004) |
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The Devil's Feather |
The new Minette Walters is gripping because it brings into it much of our contemporary troubled world. It's the story of Connie Burns, a Reuters correspondent who is used to a dangerous life. But she knows too much about a serial killer and something terrible happens to her in Baghdad, so terrible that she gives up her job and flees to rural England to hide, until . . .
(Laurence Martin Euler - bwl 32 November 2005) |
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