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DRAGONFLY BONES
by David Cole
Avon, September 2003
256 pages
$6.99
ISBN: 0060511931


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A gruesome discovery is made at a construction site near Arizona’s Casa Grande monument. The bones of about a dozen unidentified women are found at the property and each one is mutilated in an unusual manner. Is this the work of a serial killer or is there something sinister at work?

Laura Winslow, a former forty-something computer hacker, is working with Arizona law enforcement on a seemingly unrelated case. It is during her work that she will come face-to-face with someone from her distant past. It will throw her into a loop damaging her already fragile psyche as she comes to terms with the past. Together they will uncover an identity-theft scheme with far reaching implications leading to a mass grave at a national park. If they are not careful, they may become part of the compost. They need to stop the conspiracy before it is too late. Sounds like a great novel, doesn’t it? Too bad you will not find it here.

David Cole has a lot of things to say, but little place to put it in the story. The plot relies heavily on coincidence and convenient relationships that hang from a loose thread just like the sword of Damocles. The book’s main goon is almost omniscient killing everyone who gets in the way of his plans at just the right moment. Also the author tries to show off his movie trivia skill by adding irrelevant scenes that does not enhance the story. He explains the hidden meaning of oranges and pays dubious homage to some other films by borrowing elements from a particular movie and incorporating it into the story. Character development suffers deeply from overkill. What could have been an emotional reencounter between two of the participants turns into a travesty making a bad story already worse.

A good and original title does not a book make. Consider yourselves warned.

Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, October 2003

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