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Carla Day is a very well-educated woman who is floating through life. She has just finished another relationship and low-paying job when she's informed that her father is becoming too much to handle for the upscale living assisted facility where he has an apartment. Her father's Alzheimer's is getting worse and the estate wants to transfer him to a more secure setting. If that happens he will never be permitted back to the high standard of living that is achieved at the main house. She has used the last of his money to get him situated there so she becomes concerned and she travels to visit her dad to see what she can do. When she gets there she sees that her father is obsessed with a vision of a dead woman wrapped in a golden net. Since his thoughts aren't clear, Carla can't tell if the subject has to do with his former studies as an Egyptologist and archeologist or with something recent her father might have seen. Since she's not busy doing anything else, she takes on a job as a helper at the estate to look out for her dad. As she speaks to the elderly people living there, she realizes that something dire might really be going on. There have been too many accidents and deaths at the home lately and people are afraid to speak about it and so she can't get a straight answer to her questions. Carla finally understands that her dad must actually have seen something that might put his life in danger. MURDER NEVER FORGETS is well written and enjoyable, although my only criticism is that the story gets bogged down in the middle. Since no one at the home will, or can, give Carla a straight answer, too much time is spent going over the same details. The thoughts of a daughter dealing with a beloved parent as he descends into Alzheimer's is done beautifully. Life in such an upscale institution is described nicely and the writer, Diana O'Hehir manages to keep far away from the cliches of the administrators as the bad guys of the story. MURDER NEVER FORGETS is well worth reading.
Reviewed by Sharon Katz, October 2005
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