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From the
outset of this book the reader is in for a violent roller-coaster of
a ride. On learning of the brutal rape and murder of their sister
two brothers go in search of her body in order to return it for
burial. When they start asking questions in the village where the
incident occurred they soon come up against resistance and
resentment. The book deploys many page-turning tricks without having
substance. The characters are two-dimensional and the story line
highly improbable. I am unable to reveal the dénouement as I put
down the book three pages before the end. A winner? I hope not.