Title: One to watch
Product review: Michael Robotham is a writer to watch. This is the first of his three novels. While characters repeat across the novels, each book has a separate protagonist. The story here is a conventional one--an innocent man is suspected of a crime; as the police try to find him, he tries to find the guilty man. While the story is conventional, Robotham's execution is anything but. The writing is expert, the plotting compelling, the setting nicely realized. While the ground is, ultimately, littered with bodies, the action is principally psychological. The protagonist is a psychologist, surrounded by sick patients, some of whom have become victims. While the protagonist runs up and down the English and Welsh landscape, the action is largely within his mind and heart and Robotham's depiction of the tumult and turmoil there is extremely impressive. I predict that Robotham will become a household-name writer. He deserves to be.
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