This book is a slightly disturbing, courtroom drama. Pyper was a lawyer, and he knows his stuff. The character Barth Crane is an entirely unlikeable main character. An anti-hero, a disgusting person. Interesting choice. The really disturbing thing is Pyper's portrayal of crimes so horrendous and ...
A lulling, blue-skied week of becalmed downtown traffic and evenings of clear air flavoured by barbecue smoke. All the uncertainties and worries of what has come before—not just for the especially beleaguered Rushes, but for all who wander, grinning, down the city’s streets—are put into more mana...
The kind of name to put at the bottom of 8 x 10s, Bob not carrying quite the same hint of mystery. It also made sense to change your name back to what it was once you started to come under suspicion for sexual interference with underaged girls. Not that it helped him. Bob Malvo was charged with t...
Not the fiery, soul-crowded caverns of Giotto’s paintings, but a place of torment where boredom is the primary punishment. Yet there is, as I turn south on Highway 83 for the drive into Linton, a growing sense that I was right to come here. That is, I am wrong to come. &nb...
14 We watched them come. A lone police cruiser at first. The officer's shirt straining against the bulge around his waist. When he came out he wasn't wearing his cap anymore. We stood together. Unseen behind the curtains in the front room of Ben's house, his mother out on a groce...