I'd Know You Anywhere

A novel about a woman who, as an adolescent, was kidnapped by a man who she encounters as he's burying the body of another girl. Very skillfully written character study of both the adult who has never told her children what had happened to her and the man who contacts her shortly before his execution is scheduled and wants to talk. Told from both his and her perspecitves (and sometimes from the perspective of a mother of one of the girls he murdered and the woman who has decided to make the condmened man her project - a brilliantly weird character in contrast to the protagonist who's main characeristic seems to be thoughtful, careful passivity), The narration shifts without a hitch between the time of the kidnapping and the present. It's in many ways a very simple story, but carefully and thoroughly unfolded. I wasn't surprised to read in the author's note that the idea of the story came from a real event - making her wonder what it was like for the one girl who escaped. Without being exploitive at all - in fact some will be disappointed that it's not more thrilling and chilling - she teases that thought out. I thought it was very good.