Even if you don’t read it, this one has to win an award for Best Title Ever. A spunky, curly-haired, famous doctor who performs abortions is found dead in her swimming pool at the end of a day on which she fought with both her lawyer husband and college-student daughter. Who killed Diana? Given her outspoken views on a hot-button issue, she also had her share of enemies among pro-lifers: Cue the classic depiction of the evangelical with a creepy smile, a standby in the vast majority of books published this year. When yet another oppressive reverend pops up in this ambitious whodunit, you’re like: “Nooo! Can’t some novelist create a Buddhist monk with a creepy smile instead?” Still, you can’t have a book about an abortionist without an anti-abortionist. And Hyde captures the doctor’s philosophical dilemmas as movingly as she does the graphic surgery scenes.
Grade: B+
Takako Sakkinen Says:
June 1st, 2011 at 1:10 amVisit Takako Sakkinen
Wanted info on that. I wrote it off as just another charge, but I am going to look into it yet again.