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Where Shadows Fall

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This is the story of a mother who lost a child and her trip to unravel why he died. The lead character was never filled out enough to elicit any real emotion from the reader. She was not consistent with the very brief character description in the beginning of the book. This lady was an assistant DA, yet once her son committed suicide she never used any of the characteristics that a GOOD DA would have. She was a basket case most of the way through. Logic was a word she didn't understand. By the end of the book I really didn't care what happened to her.

The only sympathetic character in the book was Diamond, an obese man who was eating himself to death over guilt about the death of his family. He tried to help Sarah and save her from harm. At the end I was very happy that he "was not hungry" and you knew he was going to get his life back together.

Unless you have nothing to do or are really bored and want something to add to that boredom don't read this one.

After reading one book by Judith Kelman, I thought I would give her a second chance and try another. I didn't possibly think that another could be as bad as the first. I was wrong. Where Shadows Fall is an insult to suspenseful romantic mystery readers everywhere. To start, the relationship between the two major characters in the book is developed hastily and unbelievably. The murder or suicide plot is weak at best and everything surrounding it is just words on a page. Laboring through this leads to a ridiculous ending that arrived 338 pages too late.

This book stinks. It really does. In addition to being completely implausible, it is an insult to one's intelligence. In an nutshell, the protagonist has a son in college and a daughter in high school. The son allegedly commits suicide and she flies to upstate N.Y. to get the scoop on why. Her boorish Neanderthal of a husband refuses to invest any feelings toward the deceased son nor will the rat fly with her. Once airborne, Sarah meets Detective Aldo Diamond (just happens to be sitting near a sleuth) who agrees to help her crack the case. To really add stupidity into the mix, there is a quasi-gothic character (or should one say "characters") who pose as triplet brothers who work at the college. Bottom line is, it's one demented man behind the triplet charade. After some inept sleuthing and implausible scenes, Sarah learns that there is a high suicide rate at the college due to the school's shadowy history.

Don't waste your time, folks. This book is really a bust with nothing to recommend it. You'd do better watching television instead.

Learning of her son Nick's suicide, Sarah Spooner goes to his college in search of the truth. Author Kelman creates vivid characters and compelling situations in this page turner.