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April 5, 2007

BOOK REVIEW: BODY DOUBLE (TESS GERRITSEN)

Having to do an hour's commute in the morning and another hour back again at night, it means I get to read a lot. And Body Double didn't take me long to get through. Similar to the way that a James Patterson novel is an unputdownable page-turner, Body Double just seems to flow and before you know it, you've gone through a chunk and you've missed your tube stop.

What's it all about? Well, Dr Maura Isles returns from a trip abroad to find police cars and an ambulance outside her house. The unbelieving neighbours stare incredulously at her and only when she sees the dead person in the car outside her house does she realise why. The victim is her exact mirror image.

Simultaneously, a pregnant woman goes missing after an argument with her husband. It's up to Isles to figure out, with the help of her pregnant police woman friend, what's going on. Have there been kidnaps of pregnant women before? Where? Is there a pattern? What about the dead woman in the car - she WASN'T pregnant?

There's a real family theme to Body Double and to Isles' character in particular. She finds out that a woman in jail might be her birth mother and that the murdered woman was her twin sister. The plot unfolds well, there's a twist at the end and a very graphic description of a person's throat being cut. By the half way point in the book, I'd worked out the majority of the plot but such is the intertwining of the writing and the depth of the characters, that there were parts of it that I hadn't sussed until the final pages.

Definitely worth a read, and try not to miss your stop...

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Posted by jonola14 at April 5, 2007 7:05 PM

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