Book Review: The Edge of Doom

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

The Edge of Doom     Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
Amanda Cross
Class/Genre:   Mystery
Series: Kate Fansler # 14
Ballantine, Nov 2002, $22.95, 272 pp.

At age fifty-six, Kate Fansler feels very contented with her life. She’s very happy in her marriage to Reed, loves her job as a professor teaching literature to graduate students, and has made peace with the fact that she and her three brothers have nothing in common and very rarely see each other. Thus she is surprised when her oldest brother Laurence calls with an urgent request to meet at his club.

When she arrives, he tells her that a man going by the name Jason Smith claims to be her biological father and is willing to take a DNA test to prove it. Kate agrees to this and when the results are in, the tests prove conclusively that he is her sire. Kate wants to get to know her father, not realizing that she is in danger from a killer who needs to avenge a crime committed twenty-five years ago involving Jay even if it means using innocent dupes like her as a tool to insure success.

It is always a treat to read a Kate Fansler mystery and THE EDGE OF DOOM is no exception. Readers get to know the heroine in a way they never have before and they will feel closer to her as they are privy to her thought processes. Fans of Shakespeare and literary mysteries will definitely want to read Amanda Cross’s latest work, a novel that humanizes her heroine.

Harriet Klausner

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