Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
Border Crossings
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Carole Bellacera
Class/Genre: Fiction
Forge, May 1999, $24.95, 381 pp.
In 1991, American Kathy O'Faolain loves living in Ireland, the home of her beloved spouse Pearse, a college professor. Kathy enjoys working with troubled teens from both Protestant and Catholic families.. She takes special delight in watching her child Sean as he grows up.
Kathy's idyllic life abruptly ends when an assassin brutally murders Pearse's brother because of his connection to the Sinn Fein. To honor his sibling, Pearse returns to the family home in Enniskillen to take over his deceased brother's efforts. As someone murders other family members, Kathy fears for the lives of her spouse and child from an assailant who will not quit until he eradicates the O'Faolain clan.
BORDER CROSSINGS is an exciting thriller that centers on the message of stopping the insanity of eternal killings in the name of some political order. The story line is crisp, bringing home the Irish question in an alarming but real manner. The O'Faolain clan is a wonderful group, and the villagers and murderer augment the plot with a feel to their dilemmas. Carole Bellacera shows she can combine hatred and love, terror and hope into a very well written tale.
Harriet Klausner
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