Saturday, April 21, 2012

(901) Losing you by Nicci French

This is like a parallel story to The Closers(868). While in the Closers, the murderer was not caught until many years later. In Losing You, the single mother raced against the clock to track her missing daughter down, ultimately saving the latter's life moments before she was drown.

The young girl in The Closers was murdered because her lover, a respectable teacher could not afford to be exposed as her lover who caused her accidental pregnancy and subsequent abortion. In Losing you, Charlie was to be killed because she knew about the affair between her wind-surfing friend (a fellow teenager) and the wind-surfing instructor (who happened to be a husband and a father).

In both cases, the murderers had sex with underage girls and killed to cover up the misdeed. It is bad enough for young girls  to have sex with young men, but it could be fatal for them to have sex with older men. After all, older men have their good reputation and standing in society to protect. Nobody wants to be labelled as a paedophile.

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