I took the recommendation from Amazon, and the author is new to our blog. This is the first novel by the author, the first of three about detective Jana Matinova who works in Slovakia, but in the pursuit of solving a murder, is pulled all over Europe. Jana is a compelling character, one who has been damaged by her own original family, by her marriage to a dysfunctional artist (is that a redundancy?), and by the communist regime in which she grew up. The author does a great job bouncing backward and forward in time, and most of the characters with whom Jana associates are believable. I found the story line sometimes had too many of those remarkable coincidences among characters, and sometimes those connections between people were too vague. But, I like reading about life behind the former Iron Curtain and the residual difficulties that come from the slow integration with Western culture. I was entertained and I might read the second book in the series. For a more complete review of the story, see the following.
http://www.eurocrime.co.uk/reviews/Siren_of_the_Waters.html
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