WHAT SHE SAW

Despite the slippery grammar suspense is present at the start of this work as a woman suffering from amnesia regains consciousness if not memory to find herself on a train in California.

She steps down on a station platform to a world rendered increasingly fearful as she encounters people who know her, some rather too intimately, and all totally alien. She is terrified by police, by a sinister woman running for president, by a computer keyboard awash with spilled red wine. As suspense becomes unbearable it is deflated by a psychiatrist who has to be one of the good guys because he is linked with the author’s series character, a hand writing expert.

A plot emerges involving powerful people and others avid for power at any cost. Huge money is at stake, and a Viagra-type product with unidentified and suspect side-effects - and there is a whistleblower. So far so good and the reader anticipates a conflict between the little man and big business but is distracted by a revelation that is the oldest cliché in the (crime) book. One continues to read only because it is there. Coy and facetious, punctuated with obscenities, this self-published cosy is sadly in need of an editor.