At last an author who knows when something isn't a rodent. "Outlaw vigilantes of the genus Mustela" have a small but heroic role in this book. After the ultra violence that I was reading at the start of the year. the slow build in this one made a pleasent change as did the inteligent lawyer heroine. At last someone who responds to threats and dangers by going to the police and persuing legal action.[return][return]The heroine is trying to prevent her nephew from being snatched by his mother The mother has fallen under the influence of a church that believes the end of the world is most definately nigh.[return]But how nutty are they? The first person narrative means we take a while to find out. Instead with no early cutaways to evily cackling baddies we get some likable portraits of people in the enemies camp. [return][return]It is carefully plotted and while there are the odd occasions when that first person narrative is strained and a third person adopted and characters might distort beneath the plot demands. I can give this one a thumbs up.