Reviewed By: Ali Karim - RAM
Something in the Sea
Amazon UK PB
Yves Bonavero
Class/Genre: Mystery Psychological Suspense Thriller
Bloomsbury UK Paperback £6-99 April 2007
This little book debut novel took about three hours to read – and that was reading slowly as its tight and claustrophobic plot had me riveted to my chair. This novel has London lawyer Terence deciding to escape his recently heavy workload and stress defending wealthy pedophiles ensnared by Operation Ore [for viewing child-sex on the internet] by taking his wife Cathy and child Lucy on a sailing adventure on the Adriatic. It is written in first-person, but I soon felt that the narrator Terence to be an unreliable one, as he seemed to be harboring his own secrets, almost as well as he managed to battle a storm that strikes their vessel.
When they make land, they have a seriously injured child, and a yacht that appears damaged beyond repair. Cue the mysterious stranger – Kurt an injured German seafarer who Cathy [a doctor] treats for his injuries. As the light fades, he tells them his sinister story, one that begins more than twenty years back, and also involves an injured child, lost-love and a global search for that love, but in the shadows there is the specter of death. It appears Kurt has two dead bodies on his own injured vessel. I started to guess the ending, but this short book took in another final twist, as if buffeted by another narrative gale. The climax is sad, but in a strange way uplifting, and I came away from the book feeling energized having been more than merely entertained. I also felt pleased with myself in discovering a minor masterpiece that I overlooked when it was released in hardcover last year. Don’t make the same mistake, as it is a menacing little maritime tale – Ali Karim
Ali Karim - RAM
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