Signature of a Voice, The

THE SIGNATURE OF A VOICE is a cat-and-mouse game between a violent trio, led by a psychopathic killer, and a police officer on suspension, teamed with his wife and a psychiatrist. Move and countermove in this chess game is planned and enacted. The reader, in the position of god, knows who is guilty and who plans what, but just as in chess, the opponents' plans thwart one another. The outcomes twist and turn to the final curtain fall.

There is a sense of suspense but also of anger as the system seems to be working against those who are fighting on the side of right, while the perpetrators of vicious crimes seem able to operate freely and choose to do what they wish. They choose the route of ultra-violence to stay ahead of the law in an otherwise tranquil community: they plan and execute, in all senses of the word. Is it possible to triumph against this ruthlessness?