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THE DEPTHS OF SOLITUDE
by Jo Bannister
St Martin's Minotaur, December 2004
272 pages
$23.95
ISBN: 0312337124


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Brodie Farrell's best friend Daniel Hood has been missing for several weeks. She is concerned but refuses to admit that it was partly her fault that he left town. They had quarrelled over their last case and he put his house up for sale and went away.

Brodie is at dinner with Detective Superintendent Jack Deacon, Detective Sergeant Charlie Voss, and staff nurse Helen Choi, when the discussion turns to Daniel. The consensus is that Brodie should look for him and apologize. Brodie takes their advice into consideration, but meanwhile, she has to earn a living for herself and her five-year-old daughter Paddy.

Farrell takes Paddy with her on a visit to an agoraphobic client, who gently shows Paddy his wondrous working models of machines and engines. He then asks Brodie to visit a local estate where a collector supposedly has a very rare model that he wants to buy. Brodie goes but a half-brick shatters her windshield before she finds the collector. Later, she is having a coffee in a cafe when her handbag is stolen, and still later, her car is burned. Who is stalking her?

DEPTHS OF SOLITUDE is not only a well-constructed mystery with all the clues readily visible to those who care to look, but it is also a story of relationships between and among the core group of Brodie, Hood, Deacon, and Voss, and perhaps Voss' fiancee, Choi. Brodie finds things for people, but in this book, she finds things out about herself and others.

Bannister's other series, a police procedural set in the imaginary town of Castlemere has long been a favorite. The Brodie Farrell series is fast becoming another.

Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, November 2004

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