Review: Heir Apparent by James Terry

"... everything was exactly as it had been at some other time, in some other life .."

A truly well crafted mystery with shades of Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" forming the backbone of the narrative, but instead of ancient Greece, this is set in modern times, where the main character seems to have stepped off the pages of a Mickey Spillane or Raymond Chandler novel.

There is so much going on in the periphery that it seems, at first like, like white noise. Then the clues start dropping, discreetly, unobtrusively, unnoticed. The characters begin to shape, solidify and conform, and the plot takes on the resonance of the classic Greek tragedy. The further we traverse the pages, the more the path twists and turns, sending us hither and thither, before, like an ancient oracle, the story is revealed.

A true page-turner ... wherein even our narrator, cannot tear himself away from the very pages of the story being laid bare before his own eyes. And thus the narrative comes full circle - the alpha becomes the omega or is it the other way around???.