Book review - One Down

 

One Down by Diana Wilkinson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A wonderful thriller, well woven tale that keeps you on edge right through.
It is about the pit falls of addiction be it alcohol or crossword, that the two main characters in the book are addicted to.
She is an alcoholic and one who loves to live it up and he is a cruciverbalist (crossword setter/one who enjoys solving crosswords). He is also a control freak and wishes to keep her under his control all the time. She describes his mind as Inside his skull I imagine criss-cross wiring that links up nerve endings, as lexicographical data gets analysed and stored on a hard drive. He studies words the way an entomologist studies insects, dissecting phrases into the smallest possible components and always on the lookout for a rare species of word formation
In the end it is a murder mystery so saying anything more will be a spoiler.
Suffice to say it is a well written book for the murder mystery lover and specially for a crossword lover as there are plenty of pointers on how to solve cryptic clues.
Go for it. You won't regret it.

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