Sasso

James Sturz
2001

Two teenagers are found dead in a cave, in a city of caves in Italy. Before they died, they ate the walls, revealing painted frescoes. Foreign experts, including Americans, are recruited to examine the walls, while the police examine the bodies.

The police investigation goes nowhere, and the work the Americans undertake seems to go nowhere too, especially when more bodies show up and they are ordered to stop their work. As both investigations grind to a halt, so does the flow of the book, and it became as frustrating to me as it was to the characters. They lapse into lethargy, interrupted by brief bursts of determined snooping, while I continued reading only to add the book to the total of finished books.

The ending is unsatisfactory, and after the dull drag of the rest of the book, feels rushed.

Date Finished: 15/04/07
Year Total: 10