Yvonne Carmichael is a successful
consultant with a large biotech firm and for various government committees in
Britain. She is content with her life for
the large part, but excitement is non-existent.
Until she meets him, the man who will convince her to do things she
would have never considered before he came into her life. They always meet on his terms, but when she
needs him most he is there. That is when
Yvonne unknowingly becomes complicit in a murder investigation and trial.
Once I got over reading about a
person with my name (it’s odd seeing my name in print since it happens so
infrequently) I was thoroughly involved in the story. You can identify with Yvonne, even though you
may not make the bad choices she did, you can see how a perfectly reasonable
and intelligent woman would be swept up in her affair and make the assumptions
she does. Most fascinating to me was the
third section of the book: the trial.
The British courtroom is so different from ours and the timing and rules
are almost opposite in some ways from the American way of doing things. And,
since this is a psychological thriller, you just know there is going to be a
knife twist to the gut at the end. All I
can say is, ouch.
