Elise Andrioli is paralyzed except her left hand with which she can write, blind, and mute, yet she can hear what is going on around her--and what is going on is terrible. In a ski resort in the French Alps, someone is torture/murdering women and leaving Elise grim threats that she will be the next.
It is hard to believe that Brigitte Aubert could have sunk from her previous high (in Death from the Woods) to the appalling low of this offering.The self-indulgent opening pages of Death from the Woods provide an ominous warning of what is to come.
I can't remember when I've been so disappointed in a book. Ms.
Brigette Aubert is a hugely successful mystery/thriller writer in her native France. Someone else will have to tell me if irony is a national characteristic there, but Aubert uses a great deal of irony in her writing.
When I finished Death from the Woods I didn't know there was a sequel, imagine my surprise when I came across the book while looking at Jane Austen in the library. I was so happy and while I did read it in one day I can't help but be disappointed.
