false 2980614 0340933127 9780340933121 14 3 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2980614.The_Point_of_Rescue 232473 Sophie Hannah 599 161 5 0 false Mon Aug 24 04:20:15 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 04:42:45 -0700 2009
The Point of Recuse is Sophie Hannah's third novel, and it's just getting ready to be released in the US in hardcover as The Wrong Mother--very similar covers, but different titles. (I'm not sure why the title was changed for the US version)

The Point of Rescue is a thriller, but unlike so many thrillers you come across today where you know by, oh, the third chapter, who the bad guy is--this one keeps you guessing until the end. It opens with a young wife and mother, Sally, catching a glimpse of a newscast about the murders of Mark Brethericks' wife and child. This terrifies her, not because of the deaths, but because she knew Mark Bretherick very briefly and she needs that acquaintance to stay a secret.

The only problem? The man Salley sees on tv, the man identified as Mark Bretherick--is not the man she knows.

So who is the real Mark Bretherick? Who murdered Mark Bretherick's wife and child--and why?

And what role does Sally play in all of this?

Doesn't sound like much, maybe. But it is, and Hannah is a master at making you as lost as to who could have committed the crimes that unfold in her novels as her reoccurring characters, DC Simon Waterhouse and Charlie Zailer, who used to be partners and have about a million years worth of issues with themselves and each other, are. But they always figure things out and how they do is almost as fascinating as who the killer turns out to be.

As you can see, I read the UK version and I think that in and of itself speaks to how tremendously talented I think Sophie Hannah is--I can't wait the year or two it takes her books to get over to the States after reading the first two and have since ordered all her new releases from amazon.co.uk. ]]>