“A SLIPPERY, DEVIOUS STORY IN WHICH THINGS ARE NOT ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM” Anyone who’s read Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love will have found it hard to forget the book’s traumatic ballooning disaster. With Dead Woman Walking, Sharon Bolton seems determined to top that with a horrific opening that feels like the moment of impending doom in a disaster movie. Over 30 breathless pages, you experience every violent jolt as 12 passengers lose control of their hot air balloon over Northumberland National Park. Their frayed tempers are a prelude to a crash landing in which everything seems to go wrong, from the power lines in the way to the loss of the radio connection that might have saved them.
In a malevolent twist, this is a tragedy brought about by one…
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Crime Scene (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 7