Title: Routine but readable light thriller
Product review: This is a stripped-down version of the ponderous, intricate, and-to me- often boringDa Vinci Code-style of thriller. My own belief is that a straight ahead chronological retailing of the action would have made for greater clarity and strength than the author's interweaving of action in 1945 with the focus of the book, which is the young heroines search for the killers of her boyfriend and, nearly, herself. The absence of the elaborations one might get in a book of greater depth are hardly missed, since the elements are familiar ones in the pattern the author utilizes and most of us can just fill in the blanks as we go along. I would not recommend this as a book one wants to bury oneself in, to the exclusion of other interests, but in waiting or traveling in train, bus or plane, waiting for a doctor, dentist or lab test, waiting for children at the end of school, and similar occasions which demand time-filling, this would serve well.
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