I enjoyed this but found the plot frustrating.
Linda the narrator and central character is a wonderfully drawn marginal character, married to a bit of a waster, who happens to be murdering local women. Her father, a piano teacher, killed himself after being accused of abusing his female pupils, but in her recollection is too nice a man to have done this.
Having relocated to a midlands town, as a result, she starts receiving mail addressed to the previous occupant of the house. She tracks this woman down and befriends her. The woman in question is a pretty unpleasant character who Linda, apparently naively befriends and admires.
It transpires however that she is one of the girls who gave evidence and led to the death of Linda’s father. Revenge for Linda is sweet, but the plotting improbabilities and unlikely coincidences annoyed me. Unless I have misread it?
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