Book Review: Confession

Reviewed By: Carl Brookins - RAM

Confession    
Nancy Pickard
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Woman Main Character
Series: Jenny Cain # 9
Pocket Books

Nancy Pickard continues to satisfy mystery reaers with another strong traditional novel. Confession is another in her Jenny Cain series, and this one has several layers and intertwined threads that require the reader to pay attention.

Of a summer afternoon a young man arrives at Geof and Jenny's front door; a stranger on a motorcycle, and yet, there's something familiar about him. The vibrations Jenny feels are enhanced by the surly attitude of this stranger, David Mayer. He comes to demand that Geof the policeman reopen a case of murder/suicide in which the young man's parents have died. And then it turns out the young man's biological father is not the man who died, but is, perhaps, the policeman in whose living room he now tensely sits!

Jenny and David, for different reasons, reject the idea out of hand. Geof, is ready to accept the possibility at least, that he has a nineteen- year-old son. Step by step, with cunningly placed clues, threats and even rejections, Geof and Jenny are drawn into an intricate tale of sin, beatings and another murder.

The author explores the societal consequences of religious fanaticism gone awry. As always, her characters are deftly fleshed out and the complex relationships she illuminates never fail to satisfy. The movement doesn't slow and the reader will be inexorably drawn to the powerful and wrenching conclusion.

Carl Brookins - RAM

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