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 TRAUMA
(Signet) by Graham Masterton. Suspense/horror. Fiction. 2002. 218 pages.
While Bonnie, a typically unfulfilled housewife and Mother, is working
hard at two jobs, her unemployed, drunk of a husband is fast asleep in
front of the tv and her son is out getting into fights. Along with
juggling a job selling cosmetics and fighting off the advancements from
her boss, Bonnie finds time to be the areas most reliable crime scene
clean-up lady. After cleaning up a number of truly disturbing and messy
crime scenes, Bonnie discovers a pattern not discovered by the police and
becomes intrigued.
After reading Trauma, I have come to the conclusion that Graham
Masterton came up with a very chickable (struggling yet strong woman being
taken for granted by her husband while constantly fighting numerous dead
ends and let downs) “Life of Bonnie” story suitable for the Lifetime
Channel, but decided to throw in some very detailed, heinous crimes to
mess up the chick story and assuring nonacceptance into the Oprah Book
Club. That being said, or typed, I really liked Trauma. The writing and
story is so easy flowing, it only took me a few hours to read this book.
There is nothing all that surprising here, but the detail in which
Masterton describes everything, especially the deaths, is amazingly, well,
detailed. Trauma is one of those great “in betweener” books; great to
read between other books because it’s good, easy to read, and it
occupies your mind to help pass the time. One thing for sure, I’ll be
picking up other books by Graham Masterton.- Denis Sheehan
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