THE DEEPEST WATER

The murder of a parent is not easy to deal with. When your father is a novelist and you believe that the murder was not a random act but tied somehow to his current work in progress, what choice do you have but to dig into the manuscript to figure it out? Marguerite Gavin sets a brisk pace with her no-nonsense narrative style. Although Gavin does not develop unique voices for her characters for the most part, she differentiates them enough to make the dialogue easy to follow. Using a CD player on the computer with the free download MP3 software is not ideal, but it gets the job done and helps to make this format accessible to a wider range of listeners. J.E.M. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine [Published: OCT/ NOV 02]