Iona Whishaw. LIGHTNING STRIKES the SILENCE. TouchWood, 2024.
An explosion above King's Cove. Lane Winslow and neighbours investigate and find a badly injured child. They carry her down and take her to hospital. The next day Lane goes back and finds the girl's dead mother. Later, goes back and finds a cabin where they have been living. For how long? Seven years? At the same time as the explosion, the jewellery store in Nelson is burgled and the jeweller murdered. Lane's investigations turn up that both, all 3 victims, have the same last name.
For me, there is too much coincidence in this plot. And with flashbacks to WW I and 1939, I felt more manipulated by being fed info rather than carried along by the detectives and the unfolding plot. Also felt suspicious how a grocer living near Nelson would not have recognized the only local jeweller who he must have seen regularly for many years.
I like the characters, Lane, Darling, Ames, Terrill, and the neighbours, and the way children are integral to the story and its beautiful setting. Also the way the story incorporates more correct information about the Japanese-Canadian internment camps.
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