Walking on Thin Ice by Robert Burns
When
Dreams & Cold Cases Collide
An Indie Book Review by Joseph Poopinski
4
stars
Sleep deprivation turns terribly detrimental when a sharp reporter becomes obsessed with her deceased policeman father’s toughest unsolved case. Eventually the “asleep” & “awake” prompts, so reliable at the novel’s beginning, subtly faded into the background of my reading experience & reality blurred: Is she awake & her vivid imagination is running wild or has she gone bonkers? Or was she really asleep & merely dreaming about interrogating ghosts or discovering new clues? Despite several audacious missteps & misdemeanors, Rachel Drucker stays the course, cross-referencing names aptly enough and, with a surprising tidbit or two, unravels umpteen lies concealing the unbelievable truth.
Two
choice praiseworthy features: How the
immersive dreaming scenes did for me exactly what they did to Rachel (we both
were a bit mixed up). The clear &
vivid prose balanced description & action to the story’s great
benefit. Also, Mrs. English the French
teacher & Mr. Scruffles the cat gave me chuckles.
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