Title: Disappointing
Product review: Fraya Graffham is a likeable protagonist. Unfortunately, we can't spend much time with her because the narrative shifts from one to another of multiple characters' points of view, making it difficult to develop empathy for any of them. We are forced "into the mind of a killer," a hackneyed, unpleasant device for readers who enjoy a murderer's gruesome and perverted thoughts. Simon Serrailler gets lost in the pile of characters. Hill creates laughably villainous characters from the alternative health community: a psychic surgeon and spiritual counselor. Ostensibly, she attempts to balance them with an acupuncturist who defers to traditional doctors, who are dedicated and altruistic. This wouldn't have smelled so much like an agenda if Hill had, for instance, mentioned the yearly 72,000 deaths in the UK due to medical error, per the UK's Commons health select committee. All in all, conventional, stereotypical characters and plotting. I won't be getting another book by Susan Hill.
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