02 Mar 2011 03:13:26
"The Night Season" - what it is a book. It is about one place called Portland, Ore., in that place huge and leaden clouds brings rains with melanholic and sad mood. Hover and torrential rains cause the Willamette River to draw ever closer to flood stage. A skeleton from a long-ago flood turns up (by coincidence) just before a string of dead bodies begins appearing. Did these new victims drown? A careful medical examiner notices a tiny dot on their palms that leads him to a different — and highly unlikely — conclusion, and police detective Archie Sheridan begins to search for a serial killer.
"The Night Season" makes many references to an earlier case in which Sheridan was almost killed, and which left him a psychological wreck. Unfortunately, readers not familiar with Cain's earlier Archie Sheridan novels may feel they're missing the inside story on what caused his suffering, and why he and spunky reporter Susan Ward have such a close relationship.
Ward gets access to police investigations that other reporters can only dream about, but her endless scoops put her in danger.
"The Night Season" makes many references to an earlier case in which Sheridan was almost killed, and which left him a psychological wreck. Unfortunately, readers not familiar with Cain's earlier Archie Sheridan novels may feel they're missing the inside story on what caused his suffering, and why he and spunky reporter Susan Ward have such a close relationship.
Ward gets access to police investigations that other reporters can only dream about, but her endless scoops put her in danger.
