Although I found the narrator flawed, given that the voice was unclear and unspecified, I can appreciate its purpose in cultivating a suspenseful tone of uncertainty.
Paired well with its genre, the story is told through an unreliable omnipresent narrator, one who partly upholds an objective perspective while having unverified access to characters thoughts. While Fontaine has a strong inkling as to who is responsible for the female disappearances, evidence – along with her mental state – is questioned throughout the novel. Despite overcoming the struggles of her own abduction, Fontaine and her partner Uriah Ashby become a part of a much larger murder mystery, one that includes the obsession of kidnapping and murdering teenage girls (covered up as suicides). After killing her abductor, Fontaine desperately tries to return to her homicide division at the Minneapolis Police Department where she faces the difficulty of proving her mental stability in the line of duty. Nonetheless, Frasier’s novel begins with the escape of Jude Fontaine, a detective who was abducted and held hostage in a basement for three years. Or – more credibly – I was slightly influenced by my previous read of Emily Bleeker’s Wreckagethat subconsciously affected my reading of this particular mystery. Given its 4.5 star rating on Amazon, I may have jumped into Anne Frasier’s The Body Reader with greater expectations than if I hadn’t skimmed through the reviews prior to swiping left on my Kindle. I’m here to discover narratives written by female authors and let you know if they’re worth storing on your virtual bookshelf. For those who carry a bookshelf with them on-the-go, Amazon releases a variety of e-books monthly for $3.99 or less.
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