Distress Signals
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The day Adam Dunne's girlfriend, Sarah, fails to return from a Barcelona business trip, his perfect life begins to fall apart. Days later, the arrival of her passport and a note that reads 'I'm sorry - S' sets off real alarm bells. He vows to do whatever it takes to find her. Adam is puzzled when he connects Sarah to a cruise ship called the Celebrate - and to a woman, Estelle, who disappeared from the same ship in eerily similar circumstances almost exactly a year before. To get the answers, Adam must confront some difficult truths about his relationship with Sarah. He must do things of which he never thought himself capable. And he must try to outwit a murderer who seems to have found the perfect hunting ground...
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Another absurd mystery thriller. Thrillers are apparently absurd by nature. This one is uneven and has an almost unnecessary subplot involving a French fellow with the worst luck of all time who eventually ends up thinking he's psychopathic. I'm pretty sure this is a case where nurture had a lot to do with how he turned out.
But the main story deals with an Irish fellow named Adam and his domestic partner of ten years, Sarah. Adam is a screenwriter and has finally sold a spec to Hollywood. Sarah is going on a business trip to Barcelona for a few days without him to let him work on the new draft of his script.
Except she's not going on a business trip. She's having an affair.
But then she disappears.
So Adam tracks her down to a cruise ship, where her new beau apparently works. He is accompanied by another man whose wife disappeared on this same ship a year before.
And then everything goes proverbially pear-shaped, and nothing is what Adam thought it was.
It's goofy, and it's villain is silly, but it's not quite as overblown as other thrillers I've read. This was a fun little read, and I'm not angry about it, so that's a job well done.
