The Echo is the fifth novel from the award winning mystery/crime writer Minette Walters. The Plot Billy Blake was a homeless alcoholic well known for wandering the streets, so everyone was surprised when he was found dead from starvation in one of the richest areas, in the garage of a wealthy architect he seemingly had no ties with. Journalist Michael Deacon is writing an article about homelessness and becomes obsessed with the case, digging and delving, but what will he uncover, and what lengths will people go to to keep it covered? My Opinion The Echo is a very haunting novel, and another twisting and intricate plot from the ...  Read the complete review

A number one bestseller from Minette Walters. Not an author I would normally plunge into but the book was lingering on my shelf from an over-enthusiastic charity shop spree and seemed a tempting variation from my current diet of Dean Koontz and Graham Masterton. I expected ?atmosphere, imagination and narrative power of which few other writes are capable? (The Times) and I was promised that the book ?plays havoc with your emotions, keeps you awake, ends with joy and relief? (Mail on Sunday). However, I believe that Frances Fyfield of the Mail on Sunday was either reading the wrong book or was reviewing during that ?time of the month? when her hormones were ...  Read the complete review