Note to residents of Racine, Wisconsin: I finished reading this book the week our Mayor was arrested.
Jim Cutter's next door neighbors are murdered, while his son Derek hid in their basement. Derek is afraid to say anything about what he saw and heard -- until he is arrested for their murder. Jim used to work for the Mayor of Promise Falls (don't you love that name?) until he got aggravated and punched him in the nose; now he has his own lawn maintenance business while his wife works at the local university. More people are killed while Jim tries to find the thread holding the murders together. Finally it leads back to the Mayor, who had sex with a 15-year-old girl (hence the punch in the nose) and is now about to run for Congress. Barclay is a great writer, but towards the end of the book I just kept saying out loud, oh my goodness. The coincidences between our newspaper headlines and the storyline were just too amazing.
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