My thanks to NetGalley and Grove
Atlantic inc for a review copy.
The Vanishing Point
by
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| Grove Atlantic September 2012 |
From Goodreads
My3*** Review
The story opens with child
abduction at a US airport - it’s the stuff of nightmares for every parent, one minute
your child is there, and then as powerless to help, you witness your child being
taken away. The Vanishing Point
starts off well, the idea of looking back to see how the story unfolds is interesting,
and as we are introduced to the major characters, we are given glimmers into
the twisted world of celebrity status. There is Scarlett Higgins, a TV reality
star with an unsavoury past, and Stephanie Harker, the ghost writer, who when drafted
in to write Scarlett’s autobiography as a letter to her then unborn child,
takes on rather more than she bargained. Add together a handful of American FBI
agents, mix together with English detectives, and this book should satisfy readers
on both sides of the Atlantic.
Overall, I thought the book was a
well written thriller, with enough twists and turns in the plot to keep the
book ticking along nicely. The troubled past of the main protagonist is convincing,
and as there are so many nuances of recent celebrity lives intertwined in the
narrative, you find yourself wondering
if something like this could ever have happened. The least convincing part of
this story, for me, was the ending of the book, which I found a bit improbable, but,
this is fiction after all ,and a few liberties are allowed to be taken.
I'm not a huge fan of Val McDermid, this is only the second book of hers that I have read, however I am sure that her legions of fans will devour this book.
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