Sometimes Pennie Clark Ianniciello, Costco's book buyer, reaches back in time for her monthly book picks, highlighted in Costco Connection. For August, she does so in two ways: she has chosen the 2000 bestseller, The Fig Eater by Jody Shields (Back Bay, $13.95, 0316785261),
a psychological murder mystery set in Vienna in 1910, when the capital
of Austria-Hungary was full of cultural, artistic and political
ferment.
The Fig Eater features "the Inspector," who works on a case
involving a young woman who is found brutally murdered in a park. The
woman turns out to be Dora, Sigmund Freud's most famous patient.
Ianniciello picks up the trail: "The
Inspector's Hungarian wife, Erszebet, launches her own secret
investigation, invoking the powers of intuition and mysticism. The
rational and the intuitive compete to solve the mystery in this
gripping tale of repressed and expressed passion at the edge of World
War I.
"Shields may be trained in visual arts, but she offers readers a first novel that delivers on plot, scene setting and character development."
The Fig Eater features "the Inspector," who works on a case
involving a young woman who is found brutally murdered in a park. The
woman turns out to be Dora, Sigmund Freud's most famous patient.
Ianniciello picks up the trail: "The
Inspector's Hungarian wife, Erszebet, launches her own secret
investigation, invoking the powers of intuition and mysticism. The
rational and the intuitive compete to solve the mystery in this
gripping tale of repressed and expressed passion at the edge of World
War I."Shields may be trained in visual arts, but she offers readers a first novel that delivers on plot, scene setting and character development."