Book Review: Hot Pursuit

Reviewed By: Carl Brookins - RAM

Hot Pursuit    
Nora Kelly
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Academic
Series: Gillian Adams # 5
Poisoned Pen Press; 327 pages; Hardcover; $24.95;' April, 2002

The fifth episode in the interesting life of Professor Gillian Adams. A Vancouver, BC resident, she’s finally taken the plunge. With both her parents dead and her previous life parceled out through sale of her parent’s house and the rest in boxes, she’s moved to London to be with long time sometime lover, police detective Edward Gisborne.

There, while going through the unsettling experience of settling in to a totally new life in a different country, she renews a friendship with a former television producer. Charlotte has fallen on hard times and become reclusive. Charlotte, it develops, is becoming increasingly concerned about her daughter Olivia, a talented actress, while battling her own demons.

>From the first, author Kelly introduces a sinister element in the mysterious watcher. Using all the story elements with skill and deftness, she brings more characters and more action, both cerebral and physical, into play. The rhythms and scenes of London are an integral part in the book and the reader is drawn tightly into the spinning vortex of the novel.

This is an excellent novel of relationships, mystery and suspense. The climactic scenes are all any reader of fiction could require. The characters are true to themselves and to the internal integrity of the novel. A fine effort.

Carl Brookins - RAM

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