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The Reverend Sally Applegate, a newly ordained deacon in a London parish, and her husband, Michael, a policeman, have already been experiencing hard times in their marriage for some time as The Four Last Things opens. When their daughter, Lucy, is kidnapped they grow even farther apart. Each turns initially away from the other and towards the source of their faith: for Lucy, it is the church, and for Michael, the police. Meanwhile the kidnappers, a pedophile named Eddie and a female serial killer named Angel, find themselves unexpectedly touched by the little girl they've abducted--a situation that makes this already unstable couple even more volatile and unpredictable. As a series of grisly discoveries of body parts seems to indicate that Lucy is in imminent danger of becoming the next victim, Sally and Michael's faith in themselves, each other, and the institutions that have nurtured them is tested to the breaking point.
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Veteran Taylor (The Mortal Sickness, 1996, etc.) begins his ``Roth trilogy,'' suspense novels about the Appleyard and Byfield families, with the story of four-year-old Lucy Appleyard's kidnapping out from under the nose of her overburdened minder. Despite the stiff-upper-lip nostrums proffered by Chief Inspector Maxham, Lucy's parents are frantic. Her father Michael, a CID sergeant facing disciplinary charges for striking a suspect, has troubles of his own. And her mother Sally, incoming deacon at St. George's iffy congregation in Kensal Vale, is still smarting under years of opposition to her ordination, first from Michael's imperious godfather, David Byfield, and most recently from Audrey Oliphant, a crazy interloper who interrupted Sally's inaugural sermon with a stream of curses, only to return home and kill herself. The somber atmosphere, awash with intimations of the Four Last Things of Christian eschatology--death, judgment, heaven, and hell--isn't relieved by the revelation that the kidnappers are Eddie Grace, a fragile ex-teacher whose childhood was the stuff of nightmares, and Angel Wharton, the ethereal, hard-as-nails boarder who's kept Eddie effortlessly under her thumb throughout each of their three earlier experiments in child abduction. The constant use of flashbacks piles on the menace while oddly diminishing the immediate peril to Lucy. But it would be unwise to judge such an eschatological fantasy without seeing the design of the whole trilogy. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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The marriage between Sally and Michael Appleyard is going through difficult times. Sally, a reverend, in the Church of England and Michael, a police officer, seem to be drifting apart with their only connection being their beloved four year old daughter Lucy. However, their world spins further out of control when a pair of kidnappers (Eddie Grace and Angel Wharton -- ironic names for kidnappers of a child of a deacon) abduct Lucy.
Sally turns to her Church for salvation, but her godfather, a priest, loathes women in the clergy. Michael turns inward in a hope of finding answers through the police. Both fail to gain salvation as their institutions fail them. Meanwhile, the police are finding body parts at voarious hurches. They feel that these occurencesare somehow linked to the Lucy kidnapping, but this deduction leaves them no closer to finding the child. If Lucy is not freed soon, Eddie a pediophile and Angel a violent person will probably rape and kill the child.
THE FOUR LAST THINGS, the first novel in Andrew Taylor's serial killer trilogy, is an interesting thriller that successfully shifts perspective from one person to another so that the kidnapping shares the central theme with religious beliefs. The four major characters are all interesting players with the two relationships on the surface seemingly different, but inside very similar. However, with all this going for it and it being a thriller worth reading, the book seems a bit flat when compared to Mr. Taylor's classy AN AIR THAT KILLS.
Harriet Klausner
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Taut suspense story: very well written
24. April 2003
Format:Taschenbuch
Almost a horror story, this novel is highlighted by interesting characters and a plot that gradually tightens the pressure on the characters and the reader. Along with Breakheart Hill and Void Moon this is the finest mystery/suspense novel of the last decade. A must read.
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A mesmerizing trip into the weird and macabre
28. März 2003
Format:Taschenbuch
This book is not for the faint of heart, especially if you read the text closely. The villain in this work could easily be the Marques de Sade's sister. The characterizations in this work are unusually rich and complex for a suspense novel. Also, the writing easily surpasses almost everything I've read in the mystery/suspense genre. This book takes risks and succeeds magnificently. Highly recommended.
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A Disturbing Story
17. April 2003
Format:Taschenbuch
I enjoyed reading this novel. It is not really a police procedural as the police play a small role. Nor is it really a mystery as we know quite early on who has commited the crine . Some people might find the story disturbing as it deals with crimes against children. The author is a very good writer and there is an atmosphere of menace through the book. The story jumps back and forth between the phsycopaths who have kidnapped a child and the distraught parents.Frankly I thought the parents considering there child has been stolen seemed to decend into self pity and I found the criminals to be more interesting.Anyway the book was quite good and I would reccomend it.
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