Carrisi, Donato: The Whisperer

I finished this excellent novel some time ago but failed to comment on it at the time.   The work has had a world wide success and I consider this to be well-deserved.   Moving relatively leisurely with
occasional detours from the main plot (which turn out in part to be back story), the book deals with
he work of a policewoman who is a specialist in finding missing girls.   She is attached to a special
force  which is dealing with an unusual circumstance - a number of arms arranged in a circle in a
clearing.  The arms are all of girls in the childhood and are of varying ages of detachment.   The
woman is accepted somewhat reluctantly by the team which has been established for some time.   The pace of the novel allows for character development of all the involved police which makes it a
chanage from so many works where all but the lead characters tend to be ciphers.   I know I read
this when it was first issued as a paperback some years ago but found it more than satisfying a read
the second time around.