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Meredith Laughlin is the typical doctor's wife, except she has a desire to go back to school to further her education. However, things seldom go as planned. Her husband, Conrad, uses his cell phone to call Meredith during a rain storm while he is visiting the rural clinics, and the call is cut off with the sounds of an accident. Meredith attempts to call him back, but there is no answer. Logically, she contacts the police and eventually they do begin a search, but no one seems to know anything about the accident. There is no evidence of an accident, and the rural clinics were not expecting the doctor. Completely frazzled and confused, Meredith decides to continue with her goal and begins her graduate level classes then, as a distraction from her husband's disappearance. She does continue to investigate his disappearance herself and to persuade the police constantly to look further and to continue the search. The use of the Shakespeare play OTHELLO is excellent as well as the abnormal psychology class information of a psychopath vs. a sociopath. These are well-blended into the plot and are used throughout the book as a reference. The comparison to Meredith's real life drama does resemble OTHELLO. The book is well-paced and a delightful quick suspense novel. It actually flows and increases in intensity as it nears the ending. The mystery of the disappearance is very believable and could even be based upon a real event. But there was a problem with the introduction of one of the more influential characters, Agatha. I had a problem with meeting a character at a graduate class and instantaneously becoming lifelong friends. That just doesn't seem natural to me. This was the main error and I felt the relationship was very forced as if the author didn't know how to continue and the character of Agatha would solve the problem. Also, I had a problem with Agatha's coincidental relationship with the detective, Sam Vandehoven. It was just too neat and tidy, too much. The title does not really fit the novel. With NINE DAYS TO EVIL, I expected a huge climatic evil event to happen on the ninth day. It didn't. Many deceptive and nasty things happened on the days preceding the ninth day. The ninth day was the resolution, not the climax.
Reviewed by Teri Davis, January 2004
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