Security
Ed Inman, owner of Stoneleigh Sentinel home security, serves as the hero of this rather sluggish moral drama. At the outset, Ed, an agreeable insomniac struggling with an imploding marriage and a sense of life’s pointlessness, discovers the inebriated son of his ex-girlfriend shambling down a back road, just after an alarm has sounded at the house of rich recluse Doyle Cutler. So far so good – but the problem is it’s another 150 pages before we return to that scene, which is at the centre of the novel.
Meanwhile Amidon takes us on a circuitous tour of the crumbling, melodramatic relationships in the fictional town of Stoneleigh.
