Willow Walk
A heart-pounding, unputdownable psychological thriller with an astonishing twist
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نقد و بررسی
April 17, 2017
In British author Holliday’s scary if banal second Banktoun novel (after 2015’s Black Wood), Graeme, a disturbed young man, escapes from the mental institution where he has been confined for decades. Graeme writes letters to Marie, with whom he once had a close relationship. Marie is terrified as well as a bit conflicted, because part of her still loves Graeme despite what he has done to her in the past. Among other things, she pushes away Sgt. Davie Gray, the sympathetic policeman she has been dating in the town of Banktoun. Unfortunately, Graeme is not a particularly interesting psychological case. The only question is how many bodies it will take until he is caught and/or killed. So when yet another letter from Graeme appears, even though it’s both gross and creepy, it’s also just more of the same. Maybe there’s a limit to how high you can ratchet up terror. A subplot about a 16-year-old girl who works in the same café as Marie and her burgeoning sexuality doesn’t add much.
May 1, 2017
Sergeant Davie Gray is working in Banktoun, a small, seemingly sleepy Scottish town. Nothing much happens here, Davie thinks, prompting him to contemplate training for Scotland Yard CID. All that changes when a patient escapes from a nearby mental hospital and brutally attacks a young woman. Add to this a series of deaths from nasty designer drugs, which may be connected to a visiting carnival. There's also the matter of Davie's girlfriend, Marie, and her strange behavior, which may have something to do with the escaped patient. Fans of British procedurals that go to very dark places will love this creepy thriller about a town that turns out to be not so sleepy after all.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)
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