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Soon Tony, still plagued by the memories of Marina, is strongly attracted to Lucy and at the same time discovers a letter which states that Otherways was the setting of the mysterious murder committed in 1939 known as "the Milner enigma".
Lucy and Tony become lovers, Tony thus betraying his friend Matt and Lucy wrecking her marriage. And as Tony tries to uncover the mystery behind Otherways, the list of victims grows longer and longer and disaster can no longer be avoided.
The plot in "Set In Stone" turns and twists and Robert Goddard is truly a master story writer in the suspense genre.
After I read my first of Goddard's books, I committed to reading them all. Of the five I've read thus far, I'd say that "Caught in the Light" is the best -- and in fact, the best suspense novel I've ever read. "Set in Stone" is easily the worst.
I agree with the previous reviewer who said that the book starts well but falls apart long before the end. In truth, this book reads like some roughly sketched posthumous novel that a successful writer put aside as not good enough to publish -- but that some greedy publisher decided to publish anyway.
Atypically for Goddard, it all feels very slack and sloppy. Oh, he can still thrill you with a scene here and there, but the whole thing does not hold together. What's worse, he cheats the reader by not truly explaining the ghostly happenings at the mysterious house (well described, as always) and by ending the book in a very perfunctory manner.
Luckily, "Set in Stone" seems to be the exception in Goddard's canon. I'd recommend you skip it and choose one of his other novels (for example, the previously mentioned "Caught in the Light" or "Into the Blue") to find out what truly great suspense writing is all about.
But like so many books, the last chapter or two provide explanations that simply are not up to the standard demanded after so much excellent build up.
Goddard builds this book up on mystery only knock it down by the ill-suited reality. All the suggestions that something paranormal is at work in Otherways are little more than smokescreen when the truth comes out. So much in the conclusion does not sit right with the words that have gone before, and I was left feeling cheated by the author.
It is such a shame that this has happened to "Set in Stone". The first three-quarters of the novel is amongst some of the best I have ever read. The excitement level begins high and stays there until the first strands of truth are unravelled and the spell is broken.
Goddard is clearly a superb writer, and it is very comforting to know that his other novels follow different lines. I will read his other work because I have been told that this is one of the weaker efforts. If this author can enthrall me as much as he did in this novel and then provide a suitable ending, I will have read a masterpiece.
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