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Kerre Woodham Reviews

Hunting Blind

by Paddy Richardson
Reviewed by Kerre Woodham

When Stephanie’s little sister goes missing one glorious summer afternoon at a school picnic beside the lake, the family is torn apart. They’re all wracked with guilt, especially Stephanie’s mum, young, gorgeous and chafing at the restrictions of being a wife and mother. Gemma is never found and it’s widely believed she drowned in the lake. Stephanie becomes estranged from her family - estranged from the world around her and focuses on her studies to become a psychiatrist. If she can’t help her family - or herself - she’ll help other people. One day a new patient is admitted to the clinic and her story echoes Stephanie’s. Beth, too, had a sister who disappeared and who was believed to have drowned. And there was a man who’d ingratiated himself into the family who sounds a lot like the man who’d made himself at home with Stephanie’s family. Stephanie’s determined to find out once and for all what happened to Gemma and she does - in a climactic ending. This is a mystery story from an extremely capable New Zealand writer and I look forward to her next novel.

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