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Title: can hold her own with Harlan Coben!
Review: Minette Walters is awfully good in the mystery genre. I think she can hold her own with Harlan Coben. Like Coben, her mysteries resemble nesting dolls where taking apart one doll uncovers yet another. The premise of this mystery is whether the corpse discovered in the unused ice house adjacent to the biggest home in town is the owner's long lost husband. He's been gone for 10 years. She now lives there with two other women, all rumored to be lesbians together. Did they murder him together? The chief of police puts one of his younger detectives on the case, although he handled it himself when the husband first disappeared. Then there's a whole younger generation of children from the big house, now all university age. Add to this volatile mix that the whole town hates the three women, long labeling them as "witches, dykes and murderesses." A bit of romance comes into play as the policeman gets interested in one of the three women.
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