Barry's setting of Salem, Massachusetts is absolute perfection. She brings the city and its history to life, and she makes me want to board a plane and go there immediately for at least a month so that I can explore everything.
The cold case involving the three murdered women is also fascinating. There were two witnesses to the murders, but one suffered a psychotic break from which she never recovered, and the second witness's memories are as the five-year-old girl she was at the time. This makes any information they give Rafferty difficult to interpret, and of course, the chief has to deal with a town that's ready to conduct another witch hunt.
There are several brilliant elements to this story, but I found it to be in dire need of an editor. "Too much middle" means that the pace slowed down to a crawl several times, and I began to find myself losing interest or wanting to skim. Not good. However, the good does far outweigh the bad, and Barry's mystery lingers in my mind still.
The cold case involving the three murdered women is also fascinating. There were two witnesses to the murders, but one suffered a psychotic break from which she never recovered, and the second witness's memories are as the five-year-old girl she was at the time. This makes any information they give Rafferty difficult to interpret, and of course, the chief has to deal with a town that's ready to conduct another witch hunt.
There are several brilliant elements to this story, but I found it to be in dire need of an editor. "Too much middle" means that the pace slowed down to a crawl several times, and I began to find myself losing interest or wanting to skim. Not good. However, the good does far outweigh the bad, and Barry's mystery lingers in my mind still.
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