The fourth crime novel to feature Alex Tanner, TV researcher and occasional PI, this tale moves backwards and forwards across the Atlantic as Alex searches for a missing young man.
Anabel has been writing fiction since 1982 when her first novel, Hannah at Thirty-five, was published to great critical acclaim.
In her thirty-six-year teaching career she has taught adolescent girls in private boarding schools, a comprehensive and an American university. Most recently, she has written the five Alex Tanner crime novels in the Notting Hill series.
I've been reading so much over lockdown, and also got rid of KU, so I've got into randomly buying second hand books, usually crime and usually older. This book was written in 1996, and is the 4th in a series about a part time PI called Alex Tanner, who is brilliant. I haven't read any of the others in this series, but I do plan to. Also I didn't feel that anything was particularly missing when I read this either.
Alex is wonderful on many levels, she's a good friend, a great investigator, funny, honest and intelligent. She also second guesses her emotions all the time when it comes to her personal relationships. So the book is a mixture of an investigation into the possible death of a disappeared lover, and Alex trying to work out her emotions over her current lover, and it worked really well.
It's been some time since I read previous books in this series and I couldn't remember all of the history of the recurring characters. The investigation which the book centres around was slightly insane. However I did enjoy the sardonic narration and I will read the last in the series, just not right away.