John Waters is a petroleum geologist, and the details of his work are carefully rendered. Iles fans will certainly enjoy the way he once again brings to piquant life his home turf-Natchez and the Mississippi Delta-and creates a character with an actual job. It's a whole other genre-horror or fantasy or science fiction. The puzzle of how a woman who has been dead for 10 years can suddenly appear in the body of another woman turns out not to be a mystery at all. Iles has written some solid, beautifully constructed thrillers ( 24 Hours Dead Sleep), so when his latest seems for page after page to have no logical explanation for its central mystery, we hold on, bide our time and wait for the moment of revelation that will make everything fall into place.
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