(848 pages)
The optimism of the early sixties, infused with the excitement of the space race and the menace of the Cold War, is filtered through the rich imagination of high-spirited, eight-year-old Madeleine, who welcomes her family's posting to a quiet Air Force base near the Canadian border. Secure in the love of her beautiful mother, she is unaware that her father, Jack, is caught up in a web of secrets. When a very local murder intersects with global forces, Jack must decide where his loyalties lie, and Madeleine will be forced to learn a lesson about the ambiguity of human morality -- one she will only begin to understand when she carries her quest for the truth, and the killer, into adulthood twenty years later.
I really did enjoy this. It began really well and then trailed of slightly giving masses of details about things that seemed totally irrelevant, but then it really picked up in the middle and became totally un-put-down-able. Persevering and taking in all the little details was well worth it, because most of them were needed in the last third of the book :o)
It was gripping, compassionate, sad and moving along with being a cracking murder mystery, making you wonder 'whodunnit'? I didnt guess correctly and was shocked when the conclusion came. WOW! It really was great!
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