Sight Unseen review

Sight Unseen by Robert Goddard

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


In the summer of 1981, Avebury a women and three children walk in the Neolithic henge circle, a boy nine to ten years old, a seven-year-old girl and the third child who is a toddler. The two children are running around, playing when the nanny, sally Wilkinson gets distracted and the the infant, tamsin hall is grabbed by a man and taken away in a van. It was just supposed to be a simple abduction plan but later turned into a murder case when the infants sister, Miranda hall is run down by a the abductors van.

The historian, david umber becomes a witness of this horrible abduction and murder.
David eventually married the stunned nanny but his wife never moved on from the shock that initially bound them and then committed suicide filled with guilt that she was negligent in her diligence.

Retired Wiltshire Chief Inspector Sharp tracks down david after 23 years and informs him about the anonymous letter he recived with clues to what happened on that fatal day in avebury,1981.The letter focuses on the true identity of an eighteenth century political meddler known as Junius, who happens to be the subject of Umber's Ph.D. research. David begins to reconsider his wife's suicide and wonders if someone murdered her to further bury the truth. The historian and the former cop team up to follow the new leads to hopefully uncover a murderous kidnapper.

The book is innovative and had a very well constructed plot that definitely held my interest and I am sure it will hold your interest as well as any other readers’ interest. The book is well written, although sometimes a bit too detailed on some historical or geographical details. It's a good read but not for those with a short attention span.

Most of SIGHT UNSEEN is well written and good reading. Just make certain you aren't in an impatient mood when you pick this book up. The slowness of the ending will frustrate you – a lot!




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