MOVING TARGET

Alyssa Bresnahan reads this tedious plot thoughtfully. The cat-and-mouse plot focuses on thieves and scoundrels within the great auction houses of the world, and attempts to ferret out the authenticity of four loose pages from an eleventh-century Celtic manuscript. The damsel-in-distress, Serena, and her knight in shining armor, Erik, feel they have met in other eras and shared other lives, when the early manuscript was intact. Bresnahan excels at superimposing haunted memory on modern melodrama, though her male and female characters are not always adequately differentiated. M.D.H. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine [Published: JUN/JUL 02]