A 7-year-old girl is found dead in Cape Haven, a town where everyone knows everyone and nothing ever happens. That, reminiscent of “To Kill a Mockingbird”, happened 30 years ago, but the town is still marked by that murder. Today Walker, Walk for all, the boy who denounced the criminal, his close friend, Vincent, as the 15-year-old, is the chief of police. Vincent, who doubled his sentence for a crime he committed in prison, is about to be released. Fear, apprehension, spread through the town. Even more so in Star, Sissi’s sister, the girl Vincent killed with her car, who dated him. Star has not been able to destroy that beauty that has upset more than one man and has thrown her into alcohol and drugs.
A single mother, she has two children, Robin, 6, and Duchess, 13, who has become the mother of her mother and her little brother, whom she adores, and who is the heroine of the novel. Duchesse considers herself an outlaw outlaw capable of facing everyone, a precocious, judgmental and lewd girl, capable of stealing to feed her little brother and who lives bitching whoever she is. She is one of those creatures that go from small to big without transition. She has the charm of not having, like Oliver Twist or the great Matilda, someone to save her from her. He has, but little, the protection of Commissioner Walk, who is alone, although never far from the lawyer Martha May, his ex, but sick, although he does not say so, he fears the revenge of Vincent who has returned, and he has to dealing with a new crime that disrupts their universe, and even more so that of the little brothers who must go to Montana, to live with a grandfather they didn’t know existed. Told with permanent flashbacks, with moments of thrillers, others of learning novels and even westerns, it is basically the crime novel that an English writer develops by settling in the American tradition, with the tricks and seductions of that great tradition’s market. producer of best sellers.
The end of the story has something predictable for seasoned readers, but the traffic is at times captivating. Those who will discover the well-deserved tribute to Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer in the relationship between Thomas Noble and the beloved Duchess, just when the puzzle of history places the last pieces.
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