Ms. McCullough is/was a neurophysiologist who worked in the Neurology department at Yale's School of Internal Medicine for 10 years. She was born in Australia and wrote, among many other books, The Thorn Birds, which I read years ago and remember only that Richard Chamberlain was in the movie. Ms. McCullough now lives on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific. Her biography intrigued me....
And that was about it. This book is not good. It's about a serial killer who calls himself The Dodo, but uses the old Latin term Didus ineptus as his name. The book opens with a horrific rape.
I gather there is a series of Carmine Delmonico novels (Delmonico is a Captain in the local police department in a Conneticut town.) There are several characters and a lot of plot but it seems that the author had trouble deciding what her storyline should be. Much happens and then is resolved in not credible ways, quickly and simplistically.
Along with the rapes, there is personnel turmoil in the police department; there is the postpartum depression of Carmine's wife, Desdemona; there are the very weird nephew twins of a woman who sells expensive glass and crystal in an exclusive shop in a mall.
My problem is that if I read at least half of a book, I feel compelled to finish it...most of the time. I then often feel I've wasted several hours as it usually even gets worse. This book seemed to wander more and more before the rather abrupt ending. All of the various plots could have been developed (and have been in various novels) into a good novel.
Oh well, such is life...
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