![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Come back, Harri! She does, eventually, but by then the reader is swimming in scientific theory and wrestling with the book’s wordy take on the space-time continuum. Harri all but vanishes for multiple pages at a time. When it does, the results are kind of interesting, then quite imaginative, as long as you don’t think about it too much. It hints at a possible science-fiction element throughout three of its main characters are high-level scientists, and the novel leaves a trail of breadcrumbs suggesting that their work might come into play. And then it falls off a cliff, much as one of its characters does. It keeps the reader guessing, as a thriller is supposed to. It’s a multimedia production, with narrative bites coming from court transcripts, transcribed video tapes, good old-fashioned letters, and a third-person omniscient narrator. To top it all off, she’s obsessed with what appears to be a murder-suicide in which her former beau is the prime suspect.įor about three-quarters of its length, this British thriller balances twists and turns with weighty matters of fate, regret, grief, and longing. She's lost her job as a police officer after the man who attacked her partner dies under mysterious circumstances. The love of her life has left her high and dry. Harriet “Harri” Kealty is having a hard time. ![]()
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