This was the moment. The moment he had dreamed of since first seeing the house three weeks ago. Inside, the woman reached up and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and it was the most exciting, provocative gesture he had ever seen. He was shaking though he no longer felt the cold on his bare body. Pulling the stocking over his head to mask his features, he slid through the bushes surrounding the garden and ran towards the house, a human moth drawn to the light and heat of the woman inside.
Jennie Finch’s 3rd Alex Hastings book shows an increased confidence in style an execution. Finch’s familiarity and affection for the principle characters show through clear characters and voices. The book is an overlapping Venn Diagram of smaller stories with the emergence and search for the title character linking them all. These books have grown steadily and continue to be a pleasure to read.