THE promotional statement that has been used for this book gives more of an insight into the literary gravitas of the new work than the first few pages of narrative that First Impressions allows.
There is no indication in the opening chapters to indicate that
Jesse Berg is a successful paediatrician. Nor that he is newly divorced, though this can be assumed when he spends his time caring for his young daughter, Isa.
Nor that he has secrets in his past, things he doesn't talk about.
Nor do we know that Jesse's ex-wife is to be murdered and his daughter abducted and his life to spiral out of control.
We do know that in some other life he has dreams of drowning and has a constant spectre of a severed hand.
But when thirty two years later a severed hand is delivered in a box to the home of a superannuated former head of Jesse old children’s home matters become focused in the extreme.
The continuum of this narrative and the progression of plot line is alluring …. Grippingly so.
Bring it on.
There is no indication in the opening chapters to indicate that
Jesse Berg is a successful paediatrician. Nor that he is newly divorced, though this can be assumed when he spends his time caring for his young daughter, Isa.
Nor that he has secrets in his past, things he doesn't talk about.
Nor do we know that Jesse's ex-wife is to be murdered and his daughter abducted and his life to spiral out of control.
We do know that in some other life he has dreams of drowning and has a constant spectre of a severed hand.
But when thirty two years later a severed hand is delivered in a box to the home of a superannuated former head of Jesse old children’s home matters become focused in the extreme.
The continuum of this narrative and the progression of plot line is alluring …. Grippingly so.
Bring it on.