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The Edgar Award-winning, bestselling author hailed by The Washington Post Book World as "a master of the macabre who imbues her novels with an intensely eerie atmosphere" weaves an astonishing tale of mystery, intrigue, and revenge.
In just seven years, Minette Walters has burst from the ranks of mystery writers to become a bestselling author the world over and today's preeminent practitioner of psychological suspense. With constant comparisons to P. D. James and Ruth Rendell and a growing American audience, Walters is poised for breakout success with The Shape of Snakes, her finest, and most finely wrought, novel yet.
November 1978. The winter of discontent. Britain is on strike. The dead lie unburied, garbage piles in the streets-and somewhere in West London a black woman dies in a rain-filled gutter. Known as "Mad Annie," she was despised by her neighbors.
Her passing would have gone unmourned and unnoticed but for the young woman who finds her and who believes-apparently against reason-that Annie was murdered.
But whatever the truth about Annie-whether she was as mad as her neighbors claimed, whether she lived in squalor as the police said, whether she cruelly mistreated the cats found starving in her house-something passed between her and Mrs. Ranelagh in the moment of death that binds this one woman to her cause for the next twenty years.
But why is Mrs. Ranelagh so convinced it was murder, when, by her own account, Annie died without speaking? Why does the subject make her husband so angry that he refuses to talk about what happened that night? And why would any woman spend twenty painstaking years uncovering the truth-unless her reasons are personal?
- Sales Rank: #2823577 in Books
- Published on: 2001-07-23
- Released on: 2001-07-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.32" h x 1.30" w x 6.32" l, 3.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 352 pages
Amazon.com Review
Minette Walters is as much exterminator as novelist. With uncomfortable accuracy, her novels bring to the surface those creepy, crawly parts of the human psyche that most of us would rather keep hidden. Articulate, clever, and acutely observant, she eschews the standard trappings of psychological suspense and presents characters both vulnerable and deeply unpleasant.
Twenty years ago, M. Ranelagh found her Graham Road neighbor dying in a gutter. "Mad Annie" Butts, long persecuted for being black and for suffering from Tourette's syndrome, had had her skull shattered. So deeply did Annie's death--ruled an accident--affect M. that she has spent the last two decades secretly amassing proof that it was murder, and that the murderer lived in Graham Road. Her collection of evidence faithfully teases out the serpentine deceptions--and self-deceptions--woven into Annie's death; husband Sam, neighbors, friends, family, police, all are grist for the mill of M.'s occasionally unscrupulous research:
I suppose everyone has a pet subject that triggers their anger--with me it was my mother's wicked talent for stirring, with Sam it was his fear of Mad Annie and everything her death represented: the mask of respectability that overlaid the hatreds and the lies. He always hoped, I think, in a rather free interpretation of the karma principle, that if he refused to look beneath a surface then the surface was the reality. But he could never rid himself of the fear that he was wrong.
Although M.'s investigations focus on her neighbors (who range from eccentric to downright evil), they reveal just as much about her. Crafty, manipulative, and seething with rage, she carefully constructs her revenge on an unidentified murderer--and, one suspects, on the frustrations and limitations that define her own life.
The Shape of Snakes is both a gripping thriller and a stunning novel. Don't be surprised if it works its way into your library of favorites. --Kelly Flynn
From Publishers Weekly
For 20 years Mrs. Ranelagh has quietly collected evidence about the suspicious death of her neighbor, a black woman known as "Mad Annie," whose body was found in the gutter one evening. London police concluded that Annie was hit by a passing truck. But Ranelagh now armed with letters, statements and testimonials from both official and nonofficial sources is convinced she was beaten to death in a fury of racial hatred. Moreover, she suspects that one of her neighbors, or even her husband, Sam, may have been the killer. From such an intriguingly simple setup springs another searingly narrated psychological drama by Edgar-winner Walters in which manners and other forms of propriety slowly give way to raw, ugly emotion. Ranelagh, the story's narrator, is a middle-aged woman whose restrained public persona masks a bitter, unsparing nature driven by a life of disappointment and futility. She herself was scarred by Annie's death, terrorized in the months following for being a "nigger lover" and publicly doubting the police version. Not only does she want to find out who killed Annie, she wants personal revenge. One by one, she confronts her old neighbors a disparate cast of losers and social climbers now spread across the London area. Ranelagh's search, however, turns into not only a quest for justice but an agonizing odyssey that forces to the surface painful truths about herself and her family. Keeping track of all the players can be a challenge. Yet Walters (The Sculptress; The Ice House) has again created a consuming main character in Ranelagh and a tightly coiled plot that whiplashes with cruel efficiency. (July) Forecast: Walters has been likened to Ruth Rendell and P.D. James, and the comparison is appropriate. Though she doesn't yet have their name recognition, an author tour will help build her profile, as should excellent word of mouth.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
A 20-year-old murder, committed during a climate of intolerance, is at the center of this superb psychological novel. When "Mad Annie" Butts, a black woman afflicted with Tourette's syndrome, dies in the street in front of her London home, police call it an accident. But M. Ranelagh, the young teacher who finds her dying neighbor and tells the story, believes otherwise. And Ranelagh's obsessive quest for justice or, as some believe, revenge leads her to pursue the case for years while living abroad, before personally investigating and confronting her former neighbors. In the process, she uncovers infidelity, prostitution, theft, malicious mischief, rape, and other violent assaults before gaining some measure of truth. In her seventh novel, British author Walters (The Breaker) presents wonderfully complex, three-dimensional characters (including the memorable narrator, who hides her first name even from us) and unravels their stories masterfully, with a final note as illuminating as it is wrenching. Absolutely essential for fiction collections.
- Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty. P.L., VA
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Most helpful customer reviews
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
"REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SAVORED COLD."
By Kindle Customer
I don't remember at the moment who said that - some scholar can fill me in. I'm still reeling from the impact of this book. I would give it 10 stars if I could and I've never said that about another book I've reviewed. I think it is beside the point to expound on the book's plot - for one thing, other reviewers cover that topic; for another, to it would be useless, without giving away the plot, to try to put in a review how this book made me feel just about every human emotion there is with stunning clarity - emtions that slammed in so hard, I had to put the book down for a few moments quite a number of times. I am very surprised, as (somewhat embarrassedly admit) I ordered it on a whim for the simple reason that I had no other tempting thriller to read at the moment. In fact, heretofore I have felt lukewarm about Minette Walters' previous books, despite their critical acclaim. I did enjoy the made-for-television adaptions of "The Sculptress", "The Dark Room" and, to a lesser extent, "The Scold's Bridle", which made me think I liked the plots, but not the writing. Well, I retract all that now. The writing in this book was electrifying. Yes, it does deal with the darkest aspects human beings possess, as one reviewer mentioned, and if you don't have a strong stomach, be warned and stay away. In these days of work rage, road rage, racism, hate crimes, etc., it really does seem as if everyone thirsts mightily for revenge for wrongs done them. One would like to believe oneself could control this thirst for revenge - I did; but I don't anymore and there will be many more moments of reflection for me because of "The Shape of Snakes". "An eye for an eye" is an apt quotation, but here is a more intriguing one from the book: (an old Chinese proverb says) "If you wait long enough by the river, the bodies of your enemies will float by." If this book does not make you examine your own conscience, you don't have one.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Snake Shapes
By Reader Leader
(...). This is a remarkably clever examination of "snakes": Men who abuse their children, men who rape, women who damage their children through abuse and terror, women who abuse their children through neglect, women who lie and cheat with friends' husbands and the husbands who participate, policemen who abuse their authority and people who allow prejudice and hatred to poison their own lives through the persecution of others. The author, however, does not weave a tale devoid of hope nor devoid of other worthwhile virtues: love, responsibility, perseverance, commitment and honesty. This is a beautifully written tale that you have to think about as you read and one you will continue to think about after you've turned the last page. I could not admire the author more......
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Three Stars
By Amazon Customer
Not Minettes best but still a good read for her fans
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