Deadly Echo [Large Print]

by Christine Green

A PI Kate Kinsella Mystery When Kate finds a soaked, frightened young woman by the river, she feels obliged to take her in. As Kate pieces together Megan Thomas's strange history, it soon becomes clear someone sinister is after her. But why? Megan tells of a rape she can't remember and at night she hears the cries of her dead baby. It is hard to establish the truth, but the threat seems ever more real.

• Format: Hardcover
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0727874489
• ISBN13: 9780727874481
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Severn House
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Christine Green is a great discovery!

After reading this book, I've started reading more in the series -- this book is kind of in the middle of what Green has written in the Kate Kinsella series. Kate is kind of a Kinsey Milhone in Britain detective. She is living above a funeral home in this book, and her unusual buddy is an older man -- Hubert, the undertaker who is her landlord. They have a dog that's technically his, but when she's walking the dog one rainy night, she -- or rather the dog -- finds a young girl under a bush. The girl isn't making a lot of sense, but Kate takes her home to dry off. This girl has a strange story to tell about a half-remembered childbirth and a baby she never saw -- born dead, she was told. The conception of this child is even less remembered that the birth -- and it sounds very fishy to Kate, who believes the girl's story. She sets off to find a man who might be behind all of this -- a man who is with the police. Green is great at plotting, and Kate and her friends are likeable and interesting. I look forward to the rest of the series.

Intriguing characters, well written. Definitely a winner

It looked like a load of rags and Private Investigator Kate Kinsella tried to pull her dog away from it--but then it moved. The rags turned out to be a young woman, recently pregnant, and close to suicide. Kate drags her back to her apartment but Megan appears nearly frozen with fear. Surely her story of date rape, a kidnapped child, and drugs is the crazed imagination of a woman with no life but her television. Except Kate hears the very real death threats over Megan's phone. Against her will, Kate is dragged into an investigation of a crime that might not have happened. If it did happen, the criminal is a senior London police officer--someone who appears beyond Kate's reach. Kate's client is easily confused, never made a report of the rape, and is the type that would be confused on the witness stand. And the threatening caller seems willing to do anything to stop Megan--and Kate. English author Christine Green has written a fascinating and compelling story. Kate Kinsella makes a wonderful character. She is just incompetent enough to be human, with a mother who would embarass anyone and a love life that wouldn't even fill a short story, but she is also plucky, brave, and a good sport (most of the time). As Kate lurches from danger to danger, hoping to find evidence before her suspect can find her, I found myself nearly holding my breath waiting to see what disaster would hapen next. DEADLY ECHO is a top-notch mystery with a fine private investigator lead character.