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Title: Cyanide Wells by Marcia Muller ISBN: 0-89296-781-1 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.73 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Terrific Mystery With Well-Developed Characters
Comment: Award winning author Muller takes readers on a journey filled with deception, secrets, and murder. Matt Lindstrom is owner and operator of an excursion boat in Port Regis, B.C. when an anonymous phone call informs him that his wife, Gwen, who disappeared fourteen years prior, is alive and well in Cyanide Wells, California. This news brings back painful memories for Matt, who was implicated in his wife's disappearance, resulting in his estrangement from friends and family.
Matt's trip to California takes him to the newspaper office of the SOLEDAD SPECTRUM, where he acquires a job as a photographer, under the assumed name of John Crowe. Through research, Matt discovers that Gwen, known in Cyanide Wells as Ardis Coleman, wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning article in the SPECTRUM, on the murder of a local couple. Through his new employment, Matt sees Ardis from a distance and becomes friendly with her partner, SPECTRUM owner and editor Carly McGuire.
When Ardis suddenly disappears, taking her daughter Natalie with her, Carly soon learns of Matt's true identity, and an unlikely alliance forms between the two, as together, they attempt to solve the mystery of Ardis, who has led all those who love her on a road filled with lies and deception. Ms. Muller's ability to write fully dimensional characters amidst a very suspenseful read with complex twists and turns creates a first rate fast-paced mystery.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Revelation of Betrayal
Comment: Fourteen years before, photographer Matthew Lindstrom was accused of killing his wife, Gwen. The body was never been found.
Matt stood accused, but never convicted. The media crucified him. His professional life died.
When he could no longer stand the pressure he moved to Port Regis, British Columbia. He began a new life. He found peace from his past.
And then an anonymous phone call... Gwen was alive and living in Soledad County, CA.
Matt puts his affairs in order and begins the trip to unravel his past. He's anxious to confront this woman who allowed his life to be destroyed with her supposed murder. Why had she never come forward? Why had she left him?
"He was years in the past, comforting his wife. He was here in the present, a voyeur. He was about to step into a future he wasn't sure he cared to visit."
Matt finds Gwen posing as Ardis and living with Carly, her lesbian partner. They have a child. Gwen is now a writer, currently working on a book about a murder in the area.
Matt's curiosity and desire to clear his reputation lead him to Gwen's home for a confrontation. He instead finds evidence of a murder.
Once again, Gwen has disappeared. Carly and Matt team up to find out what happened to her and discover they never really knew her at all.
Though the characters are somewhat simplified, the plot carries them through the story and provides the depth necessary to allow the reader to get to know them. "Cyanide Wells" is not what you expect to read, but that's what makes it hard to put down.
Rating: 5
Summary: Secrets and Lies
Comment: Fourteen years ago, Matt Lindstrom's wife, Gwen, disappeared without a trace. As a result of the umbrella of suspicion that descended upon him from both police and the public at large, Matt relocated to Brisish Columbia and started a new life.
And then one day he received an anonymous call informing him that Gwen was very much alive and living in a town called Cyanide Wells, California.
Matt is, of course, compelled to travel to Cyanide Wells to see for himself. No sooner, however, than he discovers her new identity as Ardis Coleman, Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper reporter with a young daughter and a lesbian lover, she disappears again under ominous circumstances. Matt, afraid of becoming a suspect again, forms an unlikely alliance with Carly McGuire, newspaper publisher and Gwen/Ardis's lover, and together they launch a search for the missing mother and child. Their quest uncovers a masterful web of secrets, lies, and deceit perpetrated by Ardis, not the least of which is her connection to the sensational unsolved murder in Cyanide Wells whose coverage won her paper the Pulitzer.
This is a delightfully layered and intricately plotted novel of suspense and I wasn't real sure where the author was headed 'til we got there.
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