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DECEMBER 28, 2008
Killing Circle ~ Andrew Pyper

**bas bleu - Sometimes a thriller can be too psychological...

In the opening scene of The Killing Circle, Toronto native Patrick Rush, a single father, takes his eight-year-old son Sam to a drive-in movie where the unthinkable happens: Sam disappears. To explain how this could have occurred, the author fills in the backstory of Rush's life as a grieving widower, failing journalist, and aspiring author. After Rush joins a writing workshop, a series of murders occur that appear to emulate the story line of one of the members of Rush's writers' circle. What follows is a psychological thriller where the reader is kept in suspense: is there a paranormal serial killer on the loose, or is Rush losing his grip on reality? While this novel would seem to possess all of the elements I enjoy in a psychological thriller, it did not meet my expectations. I found it difficult to connect with any of the characters, or even to like them or to care about what they did or didn't do. Even young Sam, while likable, was way too precocious to be believable. It appeared to me that the author was pushing the psychological element to the exclusion of grounding the novel in reality. As a result, I experienced a sense of disconnection and lack of fulfillment while reading, despite the twists and turns of the plot.


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