A Mysterious Review of Compound Fractures by Stephen White. An Alan Gregory Mystery.
Review summary: Long-time readers of the series will appreciate the number of plot threads that are woven throughout this last in series novel, revisiting old friends and enemies, re-exploring cases both open and closed. But readers who may have only read one or two of the books featuring these characters may be completely befuddled by what's going on here. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Compound Fractures
Stephen White
An Alan Gregory Mystery
Dutton (August 2013)
Publisher synopsis: In this explosive conclusion to the decades-long saga, Alan is forced to acknowledge that the perils that may bring him to his knees are not the dangers he recognizes, nor are they orchestrated by the nemesis he has long feared. Instead he is confronted by unexpected threats from unanticipated adversaries and by intimate betrayal from those who have been closest to him. He is compelled to reconsider what he has long believed about trust and about love while he is trying to cope with overwhelming loss and grief.
To protect himself he must revisit the cruel ethical dilemma that turned his life upside down as a young psychologist. He has to judge whether the people reentering his life after long absences are friends or foes. He has to make sense of echoes of distant tragedies while he decides if there is anyone he can really trust. Mostly, as the clock ticks down, he must solve a deadly mystery in Eldorado Springs that has been brewing for more than a decade.
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