DYING IN THE WOOL

Set in the mill town of Bridgestead in Yorkshire after WWI, this mystery has more twists and tangles than a skein of yarn in a losing battle with a cat. Young Kate Shackleton is asked by her friend Tabitha to make a last-ditch effort to find her long-lost father so he can walk Tabitha down the aisle on her wedding day. Brody’s characters are thinly drawn, and she assumes the reader lacks the ability to connect the dots and draw conclusions. Nicola Barber’s narration is inconsistent. She attempts to distinguish characters with her voice, but in dialogue the voices are often mismatched, making the one-dimensional characters even harder to tell apart. N.E.M. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine [Published: MAY 2012]