I’m introduced to Mary Stewart with the chosen novel because the summary captured my interest. I like Vienna and descriptive nature of the novel. I’m also intrigued by eerie, dream-like narrative of finding a missing husband. Bein told by your neigbhor that she saw your husband on news report about a fire in a small Austrian village while she’s asking you to accompany her teenage son to Vienna has a strange, old time, ghost-like quality to it with a blend of modern contemporary domesticity: Husband who keeps a secret, possible infedility? Navigating a foreign country and forming a bond with an all-too curious teenager in your care.
I take the novel is a vacation mystery? Domestic thriller? Hints of possible romance. I’m loving the dark, emotionally guarded nature and the threatening undertone of the narrative. Lead heroin has interesting, intelligent voice too.
by tornikematcharr