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Undercurrents is the Frances Fyfield standalone where a young woman, Sarah, returns to the English coastal town where she spent summers as a child and finds that she has more unfinished emotional business with the place than she had remembered. A friend's old murder, never properly investigated at the time, is the gravitational center of the book.
Fyfield's strength again is the patience. The book moves at the pace of careful reconstruction rather than at the pace of forward thriller motion. The way the past investigation and the present-day social pressure on Sarah interact is the structural pleasure.
Four stars. Recommended to readers who like their British psychological suspense with serious interior commitment.
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