Saturday, January 23, 2021

Brian Freeman, Thief River Falls ***

The epitome of a three-star thriller. Thief River Falls is a competently written page-turner composed of all the modern trappings of the genre: A psychologically damaged protagonist; a boy in danger who recovers his memory of a traumatic event at exactly the pace required by the plot; a villain in a position of power; unexpected relationships; and, since it's a 21st-century thriller, clues that everything is not as it seems.

The final twist provides some justification for a vice I have long complained about: that characters make intuitive leaps about what's going on based on very little evidence and are invariably right. 

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