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Wicked Peace Book
Many writers have attempted to emulate the icy cold, precise prose of Patricia Highsmith--usually with limited success. Whether or not this was Gay Longworth's intention in the highly accomplished Wicked Peace, it certainly has all the hallmarks of the American mistress of the genre: balanced and trenchant character building, idiosyncratic and fastidious plotting, and--most of all--a compulsive readability with no interruptions. Journalist Cat Torrant is driving home chuckling over the revelations of a feisty, elderly interviewee when she accidentally runs over a dog that dashes in front of her car. When she attempts to find the owner's house, the nightmare begins: opening a garage door, she finds the dead body of a young girl, asphyxiated by carbon monoxide. Cat is filled with the … read more...
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