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 Straw Men byMartin J. Smith Jove Paperback 336 pages, January 2001 ISBN 051512950X Reviewed by Susan McBride [Reviewed from an Advance Reading Copy] Read our author interview Eight years before, a man named Carmen DellaVecchio had been put away for an unbelievably vicious attack on policewoman Teresa Harnett. Though Harnett had managed to survive, she’s left badly scarred both physically and emotionally. What memories she regained, she used to testify on the stand against her would-be killer, dubbed "The Scarecrow" by the press. Only DellaVecchio’s been released on a technicality, and Teresa starts receiving frightening phone calls, causing her to relive the nightmare all over again. But the voice on the phone may or may not be DellaVecchio’s, and she begins to doubt herself, her own mind and the pieces of her past that don’t seem to fit together all that well. Jim Christensen specializes in matters of memory and, as the police look for ways to put DellaVecchio back in prison, they entrust Teresa Harnett to his care, hoping he may turn over enough mental rocks to uncover the truth about what really happened that terrible night eight years before. Straw Men is an artfully written and utterly engrossing tale of violence and vengeance, as one woman’s struggle for answers snares other unwitting victims into a tightly spun web of truth and lies. There are hidden layers beneath the obvious so that the reader is never quite sure whom to believe. Few books this past year have so absorbed me. You can’t beat Straw Men for wow factor. Don’t miss this one. |
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