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When the past rises up and smacks one in the face, people sometimes get hurt. In this case, out of Detective Milo Sturgis's past, to Dr. Alex Delaware comes a plea from the grave. Years ago rookie detective Sturgis couldn't make any headway at solving a particularly nasty murder of a young girl. When he's abruptly transferred the case dead-ends and, interestingly, it also stays out of the public perception altogether. Sturgis thinks he's forgotten, or at least put the case behind him. But then comes this package, a pseudo murder book like those created by detective every time the get another murder. It contains all the relevant facts, suppositions and documents of a case. This one, however, points a finger at Milo in an unsettling way. With help from Delaware, who is sinking into an incredible miasma because his long-time lover, Robin, appears to be really leaving him this time, Sturgis sets out to reopen the ten-year-old case. He and Alex follow tortuous, mesmerizing paths through big money and mean streets, trying to find a key to poor Janie Ingalls hideous death. There are surprises at every turn and the form of the writing enhances the impending feeling of dread. For the most part, the chapters alternate between Alex's point of view and that of the detective so that we can follow two men, sometimes together, sometimes apart, as they close in on the suppressed facts and, as a result, begin to detect rising inimical deadly forces arrayed against them, evil forces that will not hesitate to kill again to protect themselves. This is one of Kellerman's best. The reviewer is author of INNER PASSAGES and A SUPERIOR MYSTERY http://www.Minnesotacrimewave.org
Reviewed by Carl Brookins, December 2002
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