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Title: Figure of Eight

Author: Patrick Lynch

Narrator: Buck Schirner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-08

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

At her agent's insistence, she hires Peter Golding, a private investigator with a penchant for getting a little too involved with his clients. Who is after her, and why?

Members Reviews:

A sportswriter writes...

I read this after a friend recommended it, and very much enjoyed it. It's an unusually stylish, imaginative tale with a very scarey premise. I'd also like to say, I thought it was very well researched. As a sports writer I covered winter sports for years, and the facts and issues the book raises about skating - and especially the enormous pressures, physical and psychological, it places on young girls - rang very true to me, even if they're not discussed openly among competitors and coaches as much as they should be. I can see that this book might ruffle a few feathers in the skating community. It certainly doesn't paint a rosy picture of what competition - and success - can mean. But inaccurate? Anything but. From skaters' weights, to the illnesses they suffer, down to what they get paid for show tours, I'd say the author did his homework pretty well. I see one reader dismiss the references to school figures as inaccurate. True, they vanished from competitive standings some time ago, but anyone like Ellen Cusak, training in the 1980s, would have been trained using them. An example? Michelle Kwan, whose age, I note, more-or-less exacty matches Cusak's. And of course, for routines, skaters still skate in figures of eight every day. It's more fun than going round in circles! Of course, the sport itself plays only a small part in the book. But the imagery works, and the slightly fairy-tale nature of the sport suits the themes of the story in many other ways. Of course, just because a book's well researched is no big reason to like it. That's all down to taste. But before savaging somebody's work for being inaccurate, it might be an idea to do some homework oneself! My word on 'Figure of Eight': read it if you like your novels dark, twisting and topical.

A creepy, chilling novel with a surprise twist at the end.

The reason that I picked up "Figure of Eight" is that I loved Patrick Lynch's medical thrillers, "Omega" and "Carriers". I have no idea why he abandoned the medical thriller genre at which he excelled. This book is inferior to those earlier works. "Figure of Eight" is about Ellen (formerly Yelena) Cusack, a Russian emigre turned champion figure skater. Although she has somewhat fallen out of the limelight since her glory days, she is trying for a comeback after her recent divorce. Unfortunately, she is getting threatening mail from a stalker and she is very frightened. Pete Golding, a security expert who is known for his hotheaded "shoot first and ask questions later" style, is called in by Ellen's agent to investigate the threat. The book deals not only with the threat, but with an unidenified body found on Ellen's property. The book has an intriguing plot, but the characters do not come to life. Ellen is a remote "ice princess". Pete is a loose cannon who has obvious emotional problems. The stalker is the usual crazy whom you find in these types of thrillers. What does work is the gradual unraveling of the truth about Ellen's past. There are some surprising elements here that are unpredictable.