In this tour de force, a father, shaken by tragedy, tries to avenge his daughter’s murder—and restore his family’s shattered life.
It was supposed to be a typical October evening for renowned portrait artist Will Light. Over dinner of lamb tagine, his wife, Sophie, would share news about chorus rehearsals for the upcoming holiday concert, and their teenage daughter, Lucy, would chatter about French club and field hockey. Only Lucy never came home. Her body was found, days later, in the woods.
The Eastern Seaboard town of Port Fortune used to be Will’s comfort. Now, there’s no safe harbor for him. Not even when Father Gervase asks Will to paint portraits of saints for the new cathedral. Using the townspeople as models, Will sees in each face only a mask of the darkness of evil. And he just might be painting his daughter’s killer.
As Will navigates his rage and heartbreak, Sophie tries to move on; Father Gervase becomes an unexpected ally; and Rain, Lucy’s best friend, shrouds herself in a near-silent fugue. Their paths collide in a series of inextricably linked, dark, dangerous moments that could lead to their undoing…or to their redemption.
Beautiful Book–But It Does Have Religious Themes and Is a Character Study More Than a Murder Mystery Okay, if you didn’t read my title, let me state this off the bat. This book has religious themes, so if you are turned off by that…you may not like it. It also is not a murder mystery, even though we don’t know who kills the girl until the very end. By the way, the person who left a low rating because she was offended of how the author portrayed the school janitor did not give away a spoiler.
One of the worst This book was just awful. The premise is just creepy, using the local town folk faces as saints. Also, the descriptions of the torture and killings of the martyred saints was, for me, very distressing. There is little character development. Plot is cheesy and predictable despite a couple of red herrings thrown in. Dialogue is repetitious. This should have been classified as religious fiction instead of suspense.
Dark, Dangerous Moments are Nonexistent A total snooze fest. My goodness how it just dragged out, the end was so anticlimactic. Two stars is all this one can muster. My review is not a mini-synopsis, all I can offer is that it was a dud and feel that your time may be better spent elsewhere.