The Devil's Feather.
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This is I the third Minette Walters I've read, and it's the first about which I've had strong reservations.
Connie Burns is a war correspondent who picks up on the fact that a Glaswegian security consultant whom she encounters first in Sierra Leone and then in Baghdad, Keith Mackenzie, is taking advantage of the general social mayhem to commit sadistic rape-murders. He retaliates by abducting her -- everyone assumes it's a terrorist abduction, of course -- and putting her through three days of sexual and other humiliations. Oddly, he then releases her -- perhaps reckoning that living with her memories of those three days will be worse than death?
Too terrified to point the finger, Connie flees to England where, under a phony name, she rents a dilapidated house in a remote Dorset village. There she encounters, and is taken under the wing of, a neighboring farmer, Jess Derbyshire, and the local GP, Peter Coleman. She's sure that Mackenzie will come after her to finish the task he inexplicably didn't in Baghdad . . . and of course he does.
It took some stamina to plough through nearly five hundred pages of the fictional ramblings of a self-obsessed woman who doesn't trust anyone around her and just moans and groans about her circumstances. I struggled to finish this book. I almost gave up on this book 100 times at the end it skipped quite a few pages.
Having been totally captivated by every Minette Walters book that I have picked up in the past, The Devil's Feather came as a huge disappointment to me. It has to be the most unthrilling "thriller". This book is filled with unlikable characters, has a slow plodding pace and is just generally un-thrilling.