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kcmc59's review
3.0
Being sick has it's advantages. I like Morag Joss' central sleuth Sara Selkirk. A classical cellist who comes to Bath to recover from performance anxiety and finds herself amid a typical British village of strange characters who like to knock each other off. Fearful Symmetry is the second in her Selkirk series and this one explores Sara's unconsummated affair with a very married police officer. The tension between Sara and Andrew is beautifully realized. Do they finally fall off the edge? I'm not telling. ;)
The central mystery around a community opera group (featuring Andrew's wife), an autistic but brilliant soprano and her stage mother, a temperamental Hungarian composer and a lost Chinese immigrant who seems unhealthily attached to the young autistic Adele.
I'm going to have to get the third in the series now...
btw, I loved Selkirk's Half Broken Things. Not a Selkirk mystery, but a beautifully constructed study of loneliness and what it can drive us to do.
The central mystery around a community opera group (featuring Andrew's wife), an autistic but brilliant soprano and her stage mother, a temperamental Hungarian composer and a lost Chinese immigrant who seems unhealthily attached to the young autistic Adele.
I'm going to have to get the third in the series now...
btw, I loved Selkirk's Half Broken Things. Not a Selkirk mystery, but a beautifully constructed study of loneliness and what it can drive us to do.
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