Suspense
| Mice | Gordon Reece
The
book starts off by describing meek 16-yo Shelley and her meeker
mother shifting into an isolated cottage after Shelly has been
bullied to within an inch of her life in school, and her mother has
been divorced by a husband looking for a trophy wife.
They
are struggling on. The book covers a lot of ordinary, everyday
scenes, which establish for us how much the mother and daughter love
each other, and how very very meek they are.
And
then a burglar breaks into their house one night. High on drugs, he
ties them up and starts picking and smashing. As the blurb on the
cover says, “If she and her mother are not mice after all, then
what are they?”
There
is a murder. Will the police solve it or will it remain one of those
perennial mysteries? It's up for grabs right till the very end.
I'm
not going to give any spoilers, so you have to content
yourself with this much.
Do
I recommend you read it? Yes. Will it be made into a movie? I doubt
it, but I'd go watch if it is. Age group for readers? Fifteen plus.
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