A Private Detective is hired by a Rom man who wants his daughter found. Problem is, she disappeared some 6 years ago and no one has ever looked for her. Not even the man who'd married her only months before her disappearance.
Thus begins a complex and intriguing search complicated by the secretive ways of the travelling Gypsy community. Even though the detective is himself half Gypsy, the family in question is reluctant to talk.
The travelling family, the Jankos, have lots of secrets, the major one not the missing wife, but rather the details surrounding a mysterious illness that seems to be hereditary and is only evident in the male children, and many deaths, both through illness and through accidents.
The story is told from various viewpoints, beginning with a man in a hospital who is partially paralyzed and has no memory, then from the viewpoint of the detective, Ray, and from a young teenager in the Janko family.
The writing is excellent, the mystery complex. The world of the last of the travelling Roms is painted with care and sympathy, and is especially poignant as painted through the eyes of the one healthy boy of the family, as he watches his cousin suffer the 'family disease.'
Highly recommended! (This was an ER book I received through LibraryThing.com)
Review originally posted: here
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