Undercurrent: The Wootsie Mystery Series

Author: Minette Walters
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: Minette Walters, the "Queen of Crime Fiction" in the UK, whose works have won the John Creasey Award, the Gold Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain, as well as the Edgar Allan Poe Award and Macavity Award in the United States. Her works have encompassed all possible highest honors for crime fiction across both sides of the Atlantic. The common thread in Walters' novels lies in their ability to create a tense, uncertain, yet irresistible atmosphere of danger. She drifts with the tide, tossed and turned by the waves, seawater pouring into her stomach, her twisted fingers finding no purchase. Time and again, she wakes up in pain, still shocked by what has happened to her, as death draws closer. She worries whether her daughter has also suffered the same fate. After being missing for 48 hours, she becomes a cold corpse. The murderer has taken her life, but also stripped her of her dignity. The naked body lies on a beach at the cape under the blazing sun on a Sunday afternoon. Meanwhile, 20 miles away, a blonde little girl is found. She cannot speak and appears mentally traumatized. She sits cross-legged on the floor, motionless, like a small Buddha statue. The gray dawn makes her look lifeless as she gazes intently, her eyes filled with a hint of sympathy. What should be done? No matter how she is, she is only three years old. But she must know what has happened.