So…I’ve decided to hop back on the fiction wagon, a vehicle I have unfortunately almost abandoned in recent years. Lots of great-sounding fiction passes through my hands in the cataloging department, and a recent title intrigued me: Obedience, a debut novel by Will Lavender. Obedience opens with the first day of Logic and Reasoning 204 at Winchester University, as the mysterious Professor Williams gives his students a theoretical puzzle to solve as their only assignment: locate abducted teenager “Polly” before the 6-week term ends or she will be murdered. Students Mary Butler, Brian House, and Dennis Flaherty join together to research the imaginary problem, but as characters and events from the puzzle start to resemble real-life, fact and fiction become increasingly distorted and the imaginary puzzle begins to reflect something much more sinister. This novel contains a superior blend of psychology, suspense and mystery. Perusing Will Lavender's web site, I see that Obedience made the NY Times Best Seller list in March. I look forward to Lavender’s next novel, also alluded to on his web site. ...
Posted by Kristen