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Post by Calenture on Mar 9, 2008 14:59:31 GMT
There should be more Gallagher on here... This was the first Gallagher novel I read, and I wrote this back in the early 90s, which explains why I waffle less, perhaps. I should have scribbles for Downriver here, too. Lucy Ashdown is a girl with a mission: to find the driver who ran down and killed her sister Christine. She haunts the motorway cafs, befriending the truck drivers, and over a period of time gains their confidence - and at last a lead, to London. The lead takes her to the West End, where she finds herself stepping into her dead sister's shoes - almost in a literal sense. She takes on Christine's appearance and the work that Christine used to do. And sometimes she is visited by visions of her sister, visions which warn her and sometimes seem to possess her. At the same time she is being pursued by Joe Lucas, a former police officer turned private detective, hired by her father to bring Lucy home. Joe has his own reasons for pursuing the case. He was once in love with Christine Ashdown. An excellent novel, well above the usual run of thrillers, and a reminder of just how good a decent book can be. That was what I wrote. Presumably I wasn't reading so many good books then?  |
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