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The Suspension Bridge
A literary whodunit set in an unreliable 1962, The Suspension Bridge takes place in a Canadian river city dreaming of fame as it sets about building the world's biggest bridge. The newly-arrived Sister Harriet navigates a chaotic first year at upscale Saint Reginald's Academy, where the mysterious disappearance of boarding students complicates her ongoing identity crisis. The sinister bridge is meant to usher in a new era for Bothonville (pronounced Buttonville), but the inner lives of several characters, including Harriet's, fall victim to its supernatural influence. Part comic allegory and part fairy tale, The Suspension Bridge takes the reader, with dark humour and occasional sympathy, into a midair world of bridges of many sorts, that don't always hold up as well as they promise.
343 pages, Paperback
Published October 15, 2024
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Anna Dowdall
4 books54 followersAnna can't seem to decide between Toronto and Montreal after living all over Canada and the US. She’s been a reporter, a college lecturer, a translator and an urban shepherd, as well as other things too numerous to mention/best forgotten. She was nominated for the US Katherine Paterson YA prize and for Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award in the unpublished category. Her forthcoming book, THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE, Radiant Press, 2024, has been called "an irreverent and immersive post-war fairy tale." Follow her on https://www.instagram.com/annahayesdo...
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October 2, 2024
In a Nutshell: A historical crime novel written in a literary character-oriented style. Interesting characters, good writing, slow pace, unusual approach to an otherwise usual plot. Recommended but not to all.
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Plot Preview:
Bookish Yays:
🌉 Though there are many nuns and priests in the story, it is not at all religious or preachy. Rather, the plot reveals the human side of the religious, with their frailties and insecurities.
🌉 As a character-oriented narrative, the story has quite a few interesting characters who are tough to comprehend. Their portrayal doesn’t go down the typical path, so I enjoyed trying to guess their actions and reactions. The only thing common to most was that they were dominated by their egos and desires than by common sense and duty.
🌉 Sister Harriet deserves a separate yay. A complex character, she is a one-of-a-kind fictional nun, having ended up choosing the vocation not out of piety or a calling but out of having no other choice. Her doubts about her faith make her an intriguing central character.
🌉 The title and the cover might indicate a physical bridge, but there are multiple bridges throughout the book: literal and metaphorical. There is the construction of the suspension bridge, and all the politics that goes behind the design. The higher leaders of the church want a say in the bridge design to make sure it's “leading people to God.” Harriet has strange dreams about bridges. At the academy where Harriet works, a science project focusses on making model bridges. There are also myriad intangible bridges between characters based on their wealth, gender, and social status, with not all of the gaps being “bridged.”
🌉 There is a subtle humour through remarks and observations, though the content isn’t really LOL funny. It’s somewhat satirical.
🌉 The vocabulary! 🤯 I had to use my Kindle dictionary so many times!
🌉 A shoutout to that eye-catching cover art. I always love it when indie/small press offerings get the cover right.
Bookish Mixed Bags:
🌊 While the blurb marks this as a literary whodunit, the crime itself is more in the background for a major chunk of the novel. The narrative focusses not on the crime and not even on those directly connected to the crime such as the immediate family or the suspects. Instead, we get to know the details mainly through characters such as Harriet, who are on the periphery of the situation. The effect is akin to bystanders who know someone gruesome is happening but still need to go on with their lives. This is handled well enough with plenty of surprising twists and reveals, but it might disappoint those looking for a traditional crime investigation story.
🌊 While literary fiction is anyway slow-paced, this book is almost sluggish at the start with many characters and a lot of description. It took me a long while to get gripped by the writing because of this relaxed tempo. The pacing does improve later, though it never becomes truly fast.
🌊 The ending does offer satisfaction for most of the arcs and leaves no threads dangling. But I would have liked some more detailing on a couple of the major plot points that reveal the whats but not the whys.
Bookish Nays:
⛵ Though the story is set in 1962, it doesn’t *feel* historical, partly because the focus is more on the people and their flaws, and partly because the atmosphere of the setting is not detailed much. The only obvious evidence of the era is the lack of any mention of technological devices.
⛵ While the prologue does create a good start for the story, I do not prefer a prologue simply being a scene from later in the book. Moreover, the chosen content not just creates a sense of impending doom but also drops major hints about what might be the reason behind the same. So it is somewhat like a spoiler to an event that comes almost at the end of the book.
Bookish Doubt:
🤔 I am not sure why the cover declares this to be "A Sister Harriet Mystery." Is this the first of a planned mystery series? If yes, I don't quite see how Sister Harriet can lead the investigation as she wasn't in that role in this story. If no, the tagline is somewhat confusing.
All in all, this is an interesting story that takes the literary approach seriously and offers us an unusual character-oriented crime story. I always find it amazing when authors choose to take the road not taken and explore ordinary topics in an extraordinary way.
Recommended to readers with a literary bent of mind and with a fondness for character-oriented storylines. This Canadian indie work might not be a traditional whodunnit but as a literary work revealing the flaws of humans caught in exceptional circumstances, it shines bright.
3.75 stars.
My thanks to River Street Writing for a complimentary copy of “The Suspension Bridge”. This review is voluntary and contains my honest opinion about the book.
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Plot Preview:
1962. Twenty-nine-year-old Sister Harriet has just taken a teaching position in Saint Reginald’s Academy, an elite boarding school for girls, set in the fictional river city of Bonthonville in Canada. Bonthonville is currently in the news for the ongoing construction of the world’s largest suspension bridge, but soon, a new event dominates the headlines: a mysterious disappearance of students from the academy. While Harriet is already battling her inner demons about the solidity of her faith, these incidents stress her shaky self-identity even further.
The story comes to us in the third-person perspective of various characters, but mostly from Harriet’s pov.
Bookish Yays:
🌉 Though there are many nuns and priests in the story, it is not at all religious or preachy. Rather, the plot reveals the human side of the religious, with their frailties and insecurities.
🌉 As a character-oriented narrative, the story has quite a few interesting characters who are tough to comprehend. Their portrayal doesn’t go down the typical path, so I enjoyed trying to guess their actions and reactions. The only thing common to most was that they were dominated by their egos and desires than by common sense and duty.
🌉 Sister Harriet deserves a separate yay. A complex character, she is a one-of-a-kind fictional nun, having ended up choosing the vocation not out of piety or a calling but out of having no other choice. Her doubts about her faith make her an intriguing central character.
🌉 The title and the cover might indicate a physical bridge, but there are multiple bridges throughout the book: literal and metaphorical. There is the construction of the suspension bridge, and all the politics that goes behind the design. The higher leaders of the church want a say in the bridge design to make sure it's “leading people to God.” Harriet has strange dreams about bridges. At the academy where Harriet works, a science project focusses on making model bridges. There are also myriad intangible bridges between characters based on their wealth, gender, and social status, with not all of the gaps being “bridged.”
🌉 There is a subtle humour through remarks and observations, though the content isn’t really LOL funny. It’s somewhat satirical.
🌉 The vocabulary! 🤯 I had to use my Kindle dictionary so many times!
🌉 A shoutout to that eye-catching cover art. I always love it when indie/small press offerings get the cover right.
Bookish Mixed Bags:
🌊 While the blurb marks this as a literary whodunit, the crime itself is more in the background for a major chunk of the novel. The narrative focusses not on the crime and not even on those directly connected to the crime such as the immediate family or the suspects. Instead, we get to know the details mainly through characters such as Harriet, who are on the periphery of the situation. The effect is akin to bystanders who know someone gruesome is happening but still need to go on with their lives. This is handled well enough with plenty of surprising twists and reveals, but it might disappoint those looking for a traditional crime investigation story.
🌊 While literary fiction is anyway slow-paced, this book is almost sluggish at the start with many characters and a lot of description. It took me a long while to get gripped by the writing because of this relaxed tempo. The pacing does improve later, though it never becomes truly fast.
🌊 The ending does offer satisfaction for most of the arcs and leaves no threads dangling. But I would have liked some more detailing on a couple of the major plot points that reveal the whats but not the whys.
Bookish Nays:
⛵ Though the story is set in 1962, it doesn’t *feel* historical, partly because the focus is more on the people and their flaws, and partly because the atmosphere of the setting is not detailed much. The only obvious evidence of the era is the lack of any mention of technological devices.
⛵ While the prologue does create a good start for the story, I do not prefer a prologue simply being a scene from later in the book. Moreover, the chosen content not just creates a sense of impending doom but also drops major hints about what might be the reason behind the same. So it is somewhat like a spoiler to an event that comes almost at the end of the book.
Bookish Doubt:
🤔 I am not sure why the cover declares this to be "A Sister Harriet Mystery." Is this the first of a planned mystery series? If yes, I don't quite see how Sister Harriet can lead the investigation as she wasn't in that role in this story. If no, the tagline is somewhat confusing.
All in all, this is an interesting story that takes the literary approach seriously and offers us an unusual character-oriented crime story. I always find it amazing when authors choose to take the road not taken and explore ordinary topics in an extraordinary way.
Recommended to readers with a literary bent of mind and with a fondness for character-oriented storylines. This Canadian indie work might not be a traditional whodunnit but as a literary work revealing the flaws of humans caught in exceptional circumstances, it shines bright.
3.75 stars.
My thanks to River Street Writing for a complimentary copy of “The Suspension Bridge”. This review is voluntary and contains my honest opinion about the book.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Connect with me through:
My Blog || The StoryGraph || Instagram || X/Twitter || Facebook ||
November 27, 2024
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for a fair review. The cover is so pretty!
An interesting period piece / literary fiction, The Suspension Bridge is a good little mystery but the focus is on the complex main character.
Maybe I missed something, but I wasn’t sure where the allegory or fairy tale aspect that’s mentioned in the blurb came in. Perhaps it’s because while this is set in 1962, it’s not set in a real place or features real events.
Anyway, what surprised me was that I was so engaged with a book about a nun. I’m the opposite of religious, but I was curious about this book, so I decided to give it a shot. What I really liked was that Harriet is not some holier-than-thou person - she’s questioning herself, has crushes on dudes, and even sneaks out in plain clothes to go to bars! The story is not a religious one at all in terms of having some sort of theological theme or plot that reinforces religious dogma - it just happens to feature a character who is a nun. It really shows something I always suspected, that not everyone who joins the church in that way is really that religious or at least never considers leaving. This fascinates me (probably due to the childhood influence of The Sound of Music). Anyway, that was one of the main draws to the story for me. The novel really does have a sort of literary fiction flair to it, as the mystery is used as a way for Harriet to learn about herself more than solve the mystery. She’s not an amateur sleuth - the mystery sort of resolves itself around her more than her actively figuring it out. In this way, she’s a bit of a passive character in the plot but definitely active in her life. The way these two strands intertwine was well done, especially given that they are somewhat disparate. Rather than railroad tracks that need one another to work or two plots twisted together, it's like the mystery plot of this is the line, and Harriet’s story is a sine wave - they meet at certain points but aren’t entangled. How they met and worked together was well done, especially given that they aren’t super connected.
The other characters also made the story very compelling. There are two men Harriet is friends with—who seem to like her more than a colleague/friend—and one student in particular who is interesting. They all serve as foils for Harriet to learn about herself, who she is, and what she wants in life. They also serve as a glimpse into society in the early 1960s, something I'm not super up on.
Now it is quite slow. I actually enjoyed the languid pace, but I would never call this a thriller or even really a mystery. Expect a lot of deep dives into characters and less into plot or intrigue. It also isn’t a historical fiction. It’s more a period piece - we get clothes, tech, some references to labour riots, but the setting doesn’t feel particularly resonant. It could have been set in the 40s or 80s even, really, as the story didn’t seem dependent on the setting.
The end result of the mystery fell a little flat for me and wasn’t super believable. One, sure, but three? Really? That’s all I’ll say. Likewise, the prologue is a scene from later in teh book, which I found a bit spoilery and wasn’t sure why it was done that way. It’s an intersting start, to be sure, but not really my cup of tea to have repeated scenes.
Overall though, I really enjoyed this. It’s a good winter weather book, or something to read when you want something a little ponderous and well-wrtten, but isn’t completely a lit fic.
An interesting period piece / literary fiction, The Suspension Bridge is a good little mystery but the focus is on the complex main character.
Maybe I missed something, but I wasn’t sure where the allegory or fairy tale aspect that’s mentioned in the blurb came in. Perhaps it’s because while this is set in 1962, it’s not set in a real place or features real events.
Anyway, what surprised me was that I was so engaged with a book about a nun. I’m the opposite of religious, but I was curious about this book, so I decided to give it a shot. What I really liked was that Harriet is not some holier-than-thou person - she’s questioning herself, has crushes on dudes, and even sneaks out in plain clothes to go to bars! The story is not a religious one at all in terms of having some sort of theological theme or plot that reinforces religious dogma - it just happens to feature a character who is a nun. It really shows something I always suspected, that not everyone who joins the church in that way is really that religious or at least never considers leaving. This fascinates me (probably due to the childhood influence of The Sound of Music). Anyway, that was one of the main draws to the story for me. The novel really does have a sort of literary fiction flair to it, as the mystery is used as a way for Harriet to learn about herself more than solve the mystery. She’s not an amateur sleuth - the mystery sort of resolves itself around her more than her actively figuring it out. In this way, she’s a bit of a passive character in the plot but definitely active in her life. The way these two strands intertwine was well done, especially given that they are somewhat disparate. Rather than railroad tracks that need one another to work or two plots twisted together, it's like the mystery plot of this is the line, and Harriet’s story is a sine wave - they meet at certain points but aren’t entangled. How they met and worked together was well done, especially given that they aren’t super connected.
The other characters also made the story very compelling. There are two men Harriet is friends with—who seem to like her more than a colleague/friend—and one student in particular who is interesting. They all serve as foils for Harriet to learn about herself, who she is, and what she wants in life. They also serve as a glimpse into society in the early 1960s, something I'm not super up on.
Now it is quite slow. I actually enjoyed the languid pace, but I would never call this a thriller or even really a mystery. Expect a lot of deep dives into characters and less into plot or intrigue. It also isn’t a historical fiction. It’s more a period piece - we get clothes, tech, some references to labour riots, but the setting doesn’t feel particularly resonant. It could have been set in the 40s or 80s even, really, as the story didn’t seem dependent on the setting.
The end result of the mystery fell a little flat for me and wasn’t super believable. One, sure, but three? Really? That’s all I’ll say. Likewise, the prologue is a scene from later in teh book, which I found a bit spoilery and wasn’t sure why it was done that way. It’s an intersting start, to be sure, but not really my cup of tea to have repeated scenes.
Overall though, I really enjoyed this. It’s a good winter weather book, or something to read when you want something a little ponderous and well-wrtten, but isn’t completely a lit fic.
November 13, 2024
I really enjoyed this book. The heroine is a very well developed character - a young nun with a shaky vocation who lands in plenty of trouble! The plot is full of surprises and the supporting characters are engaging too. I enjoyed the unique writing style. "Voice" really enhances the read in this mystery. There's something magic and engaging about the setting and the super bridge of the title. A real page-turner.
November 16, 2024
I have never read a cozy mystery before and I am not completely sure that this book qualifies as a cozy mystery. I do know this: I really liked it. The characters were distinct and interesting. Dowdall writes them with true sympathy, even though some of them might not have the best of intentions. The plot moved along in interesting ways as well. I definitely have a new author to investigate, but I might also have an entire new genre.
October 4, 2024
The Suspension Bridge is a charming mystery with an engaging protagonist. Spiritually conflicted Sister Harriet of St Reginald’s convent school finds herself dealing with missing schoolgirls, rough shantytowns, murky local politics, and an unseemly taste for freedoms beyond her station, all in the chill shadow of the looming, half-built titular bridge.
November 10, 2024
Mysteries aren’t usually my first choice, however, Dowdall’s novel captivated me from the start. At its heart is Sister Harriet, a spiritually conflicted young nun who arrives at Saint Reginald’s, a prestigious Catholic girls’ boarding school in the early 1960s. The novel abounds with an entertaining cast of secular and cloistered characters. Yet a nearly finished massive suspension bridge —an engineering marvel intended to be the world’s largest—is the real star of the story.
A naturally literary writer, Dowdall shines at conjuring atmosphere, weaving together physical, psychological and spiritual realms with precision. I was particularly taken by an early scene where Sister Harriet flouts school rules by scaling the heights of the half-finished bridge in the dark:
“She stood in a world of delicate-pink-tinted mist, that moved continually. When it thinned, graciously soaring trusses became visible, leading her forward, and when it thickened, she felt like one of those fresco cherubs bobbing in the candy floss of paradise. Was gravity somehow weaker up here? Or was the bridge in its gravity-defying purpose lifting her upward, as if disappeared into the roseate ether?”
In another beautifully written passage, she ponders whether her transcending religious experience could be attributed to the bridge’s gothic design. “In grade eight, she’d written a heavily cribbed essay on gothic versus Romanesque architecture, and still remembered the symbolic impact attributed to the soaring gothic in a time of faith. It had seemed farfetched, quaintly medieval. How important could a symbol be?”
Symbols become very important as the story unfolds, with the bridge becoming entangled in darker mysteries: three students go missing, bodies start turning up, and suspicion falling on both on the school and towns people. Our rule-defying nun finds herself drawn into a web of intrigue, working alongside the police to find the killer, acting as a confidant for her pupils and even spying for the bridge committee. All the while, she fights against unsettling romantic feelings towards a handsome male teacher, the “elegant planes of his face,” musing “Men really did really cause a lot of problems in the world.”
Yet it’s Sister Harriet’s quietly rebellious spirit which invariably causes a lot of problems for herself and drives the narrative of the novel. She presses forward, balancing questions of faith, the mysteries surrounding the bridge, and even, the era’s fashion challenges. In one memorable scene where Harriet dons secular dress to attend a dance with “beatnik music,” Dowdall writes:
“The dress was demure enough, but so much arm and leg had hardly been exhibited since childhood. Then there was the makeup, and her hair, which she had done differently, with Bardot bangs and the rest tucked into a fabric band.”
Bardot bangs! Could there be a more perfect image of a young woman and era on the brink of transformation?
For me a good book is one that lingers, and Dowdall’s novel does just that. With its rich prose and metaphysical imagery, the story of Sister Harriet continues to resonate. It will appeal to readers of dark comedy and those who simply appreciate well written literary fiction. Oh, and the beautifully designed cover with its backdrop of heavenly, roseate clouds should add to your reading pleasure as well! Highly recommended.
A naturally literary writer, Dowdall shines at conjuring atmosphere, weaving together physical, psychological and spiritual realms with precision. I was particularly taken by an early scene where Sister Harriet flouts school rules by scaling the heights of the half-finished bridge in the dark:
“She stood in a world of delicate-pink-tinted mist, that moved continually. When it thinned, graciously soaring trusses became visible, leading her forward, and when it thickened, she felt like one of those fresco cherubs bobbing in the candy floss of paradise. Was gravity somehow weaker up here? Or was the bridge in its gravity-defying purpose lifting her upward, as if disappeared into the roseate ether?”
In another beautifully written passage, she ponders whether her transcending religious experience could be attributed to the bridge’s gothic design. “In grade eight, she’d written a heavily cribbed essay on gothic versus Romanesque architecture, and still remembered the symbolic impact attributed to the soaring gothic in a time of faith. It had seemed farfetched, quaintly medieval. How important could a symbol be?”
Symbols become very important as the story unfolds, with the bridge becoming entangled in darker mysteries: three students go missing, bodies start turning up, and suspicion falling on both on the school and towns people. Our rule-defying nun finds herself drawn into a web of intrigue, working alongside the police to find the killer, acting as a confidant for her pupils and even spying for the bridge committee. All the while, she fights against unsettling romantic feelings towards a handsome male teacher, the “elegant planes of his face,” musing “Men really did really cause a lot of problems in the world.”
Yet it’s Sister Harriet’s quietly rebellious spirit which invariably causes a lot of problems for herself and drives the narrative of the novel. She presses forward, balancing questions of faith, the mysteries surrounding the bridge, and even, the era’s fashion challenges. In one memorable scene where Harriet dons secular dress to attend a dance with “beatnik music,” Dowdall writes:
“The dress was demure enough, but so much arm and leg had hardly been exhibited since childhood. Then there was the makeup, and her hair, which she had done differently, with Bardot bangs and the rest tucked into a fabric band.”
Bardot bangs! Could there be a more perfect image of a young woman and era on the brink of transformation?
For me a good book is one that lingers, and Dowdall’s novel does just that. With its rich prose and metaphysical imagery, the story of Sister Harriet continues to resonate. It will appeal to readers of dark comedy and those who simply appreciate well written literary fiction. Oh, and the beautifully designed cover with its backdrop of heavenly, roseate clouds should add to your reading pleasure as well! Highly recommended.
November 4, 2024
Review
The Suspension Bridge
By Anna Dowdall
Evocative of small-town life hovering on the edge of the late sixties’ changes in society, this story takes us into the life and thoughts of Sister Harriet, a teaching nun taking up a new post at St. Reginald’s, an exclusive girls’ boarding school. Descriptions of the lifestyles of the sisters, their pupils and the townspeople are detailed and make the characters come alive. The town’s massive suspension bridge project is a metaphor of society reaching out to the new age the seventies will bring. When three young students go missing and bodies start turning up, suspicion falls on both school and town characters. Who is guilty? Sister Harriet finds herself drawn into spying for the bridge committee, working with the police to find the killer and acting as a confidant for her pupils. Meanwhile she is dealing with her own crisis of faith. She experiments with forays into the town in borrowed clothing as she tries to uncover the truth behind the mysteries that build up as the plot progresses. A very good read and thought provoking.
__A. J. Fotheringham, author of the Lamb’s Bay and Bailey Summers Mysteries
The Suspension Bridge
By Anna Dowdall
Evocative of small-town life hovering on the edge of the late sixties’ changes in society, this story takes us into the life and thoughts of Sister Harriet, a teaching nun taking up a new post at St. Reginald’s, an exclusive girls’ boarding school. Descriptions of the lifestyles of the sisters, their pupils and the townspeople are detailed and make the characters come alive. The town’s massive suspension bridge project is a metaphor of society reaching out to the new age the seventies will bring. When three young students go missing and bodies start turning up, suspicion falls on both school and town characters. Who is guilty? Sister Harriet finds herself drawn into spying for the bridge committee, working with the police to find the killer and acting as a confidant for her pupils. Meanwhile she is dealing with her own crisis of faith. She experiments with forays into the town in borrowed clothing as she tries to uncover the truth behind the mysteries that build up as the plot progresses. A very good read and thought provoking.
__A. J. Fotheringham, author of the Lamb’s Bay and Bailey Summers Mysteries
August 23, 2025
The Suspension Bridge: A Sister Harriet Mystery by Anna Dowdall is a richly layered cozy mystery filled with engaging characters, a suspenseful plot, and a nun named Harriet who has lost her faith and is living a double life. Looming over the narrative is an ambitious bridge-building project, intended to link a small island with the mainland. Real politic is on full display, as an ambitious Bishop becomes determined to ensure the bridge’s construction will reflect Catholic iconography, complete with gothic flourishes that point towards the heavens. Determined to ensure the bridge is built, he pays a huge amount of money to a competing tender and engages Harriet as his intermediary for the exchange of stolen plans and paperwork. Harriet, meanwhile, increasingly enjoys her escape from the Order and her teaching responsibilities at Saint Reginald’s Academy. When three young women from the school die under mysterious circumstances, everything about the bridge and its many secrets swirl around the narrative in a dizzying sequence of events. Compelling and beautifully written, this is not a book to be missed.
June 3, 2025
THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE from Anna Dowdall is a fun and suspenseful story about Sister Harriet of Bingham – really Sister Henrietta of Baumgarten, but who wants to teach a bunch of spoiled teenaged girls with that name?
In the shadow of the construction of a large suspension bridge, Vatican II and her crisis of faith, Sister Harriet, along with Inspector Moreau and a cast of characters owed their own television series, try to learn what happened to three students from St. Reginald’s, who were found dead in the water beneath the suspension bridge.
Funny, pensive and mysterious, THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE considers faith, love, doubt, and what it means to live a life that is both true to oneself and to those around you.
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
In the shadow of the construction of a large suspension bridge, Vatican II and her crisis of faith, Sister Harriet, along with Inspector Moreau and a cast of characters owed their own television series, try to learn what happened to three students from St. Reginald’s, who were found dead in the water beneath the suspension bridge.
Funny, pensive and mysterious, THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE considers faith, love, doubt, and what it means to live a life that is both true to oneself and to those around you.
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
December 13, 2024
I couldn't get into this novel...and I tried. The characters didn't grab me in any way, and the atmosphere felt very odd and detached -- after 100 pages I was simply fed up. Not a mystery for me, I'm afraid.
October 15, 2024
A twisty, and turning look at suspension - in life, on bridges and faith. Full review to be posted soon on The Miramichi Reader.
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February 5, 2025DNF
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