Acid Row - Minette Walters

Acud Row is the 8th novel from award winning author Minette Walters. The author tackles sensitive subjects in the majority of her novels, and does so very skillfuly and with tact. The Plot Acid Row is the name the inhabitants give to their 'sink' estate. It is full of single mothers and fathers, the unemployed, and the bigoted. It is here that Sophie Morrison, GP, must attend to one of her patients, but little does she know that she is entering the home of a known paedophile. There are reports circulating that a young girl named Amy is missing, and with Sophie's entrance into the house, the plot unfolds bit by bit until the inhabitants of ...  Read the complete review

I don?t actually have any children but I know that a parents worst nightmare would become reality the minute they found out that a registered paedophile had been housed on their street... Melanie Patterson is a teenage mum of two with a third baby on the way. She lives on the suburban Bassindale Estate, more commonly known as ?Acid Row? by its residents. Created to provide subsidized housing for those people with low income, Bassindale began with all good intentions. Slowly but surely it became little more than a receptacle for societys rejects and is now home to the ?undesirables?....full of uneducated villains ...  Read the complete review

I am a huge fan of Minette Walters. She is a writer of psychological thrillers, with the emphasis very much on the psychological. She is (as am I) far more interested in the workings of the mind of a pervert/sociopath/murderer, or those of his/her victim, than the detective process/police chase/last minute catch and arrest scenario on which many thrillers are based. Because of this, her books are often deeply disturbing, but they are supremely intelligent and are thought-provoking, informative and very, very readable. Usually. Acid Row is her latest book, released in paperback in summer 2002. Acid Row itself is a 'sink estate', a ...  Read the complete review