The Devil’s Madonna
Sharon Potts. Oceanview (Midpoint, dist.), $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-60809-049-5
In this chilling if bizarre and implausible thriller, Potts (Someone’s Watching) juxtaposes the current-day life of artist Kali Miller, a young woman expecting her first child, with the fragmented memories of Kali’s 93-year-old grandmother, Lillian Campbell. Flashbacks trace Lillian’s troubled journey from girlhood in pre-WWII Austria and the tumult of 1930s Berlin to retirement in Miami, Fla., haunted by fears of the past catching up with her. In the present, Kali, already preoccupied by relationship difficulties with her husband, realizes that she has a stalker. This mysterious figure’s obsession with her is equaled only by his determination to find a small painting hidden somewhere in Lillian’s decaying old house. Kali enlists her grandmother’s faltering recollections in an attempt to unravel the mystery, even as it becomes clear that the solution may reveal more than either woman wants to know. (Sept.)
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Reviewed on: 07/23/2012
Genre: Fiction
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