Steel Witches (2010)

by Patrick Lennon

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Tom Fletcher has left the police force, and it's cold outside. Working as a private investigator in Cambridge, Tom is dragged back into his own troubled family history by an enigmatic message from his missing father. Somehow, he seems to be connected to the disappearance and murder of a young law student, who was working in a hostess bar. As a massive storm tracks across Europe and begins to batter the low-lying fen country, so Tom's inquiries begin to spiral into ever deeper and darker conspiracies. How is a high-tech American company involved in an officially-suppressed story from the Second World War? Where is the long-disused US Air Force base that seems to be the key to a centuries-old mystery, and who were the haunting, haunted sisters who played such a part in a drama that is still reaching out to claim Tom Fletcher?… (more)

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By rights this book should have been first-rate. It has the atmospheric setting of Cambridge and the fens. It has Witches and the Witch-finder general killing and torturing them in an earlier age It has a Second World War American air-base which was engaged in top-secret weapon experiments. in the present day there is a maniac who kills with a specially adapted crowbar. It's all there folks. Why then does it not work?
The main reason is that although the setting is well described,the characters most certainly are not. Tom Fletcher is merely a cypher and the other main characters are little more than shadows.
The story of a man in search of his past is fairly well done but by golly by the last couple of chapters I was left thinking ' Oh,for goodness sake,get on with it !'
Such a shame,as I really wanted to like this book. (

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devenish | Aug 9, 2010 |

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Patrick Lennon	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Ostrop, Barbara	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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2010

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original title: Steel Witches

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Tom Fletcher has left the police force, and it's cold outside. Working as a private investigator in Cambridge, Tom is dragged back into his own troubled family history by an enigmatic message from his missing father. Somehow, he seems to be connected to the disappearance and murder of a young law student, who was working in a hostess bar. As a massive storm tracks across Europe and begins to batter the low-lying fen country, so Tom's inquiries begin to spiral into ever deeper and darker conspiracies. How is a high-tech American company involved in an officially-suppressed story from the Second World War? Where is the long-disused US Air Force base that seems to be the key to a centuries-old mystery, and who were the haunting, haunted sisters who played such a part in a drama that is still reaching out to claim Tom Fletcher?

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