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The End of the Pier
The End of the Pier
Author: Martha Grimes
The setting: a small, sleepy American town where secrets are almost impossible to keep. The center of town life: the Rainbow Cafe, where Maude Chadwick works as a waitress, hiding behind a quiet manner the intensity and confusion of emotions she feels as her twenty-year-old son takes his final steps out of her life and into his own. Maud's only ...  more »
ISBN: 91041
Pages: 230
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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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punkinema avatar reviewed The End of the Pier on + 305 more book reviews
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Book is about a woman named Maud who has a vivid imagination about what goes on across the lake. A little too depressing for me so didn't finish it. Normally I like this author.
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In a sleepy resort town, Maud Chadwick waits tables at the Rainbow Cafe. Her confidant is Sheriff Sam DeGheyn and what they have in common is obsession. Maude doesn't want her son to leave home, and Sam cannot let go of the unsolved murders of three local women -- or his intuition that the killer is still out there. How these lives intertwine reveals a rich and startling story of parents and children and the pain they cause one another.
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reviewed The End of the Pier on + 87 more book reviews
nimbly orchestrates the suspense giving the reader a sense of impending disaster
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A mystery and an exploration of human behavior at the same time, done by the master of mysteries.
redhatter avatar reviewed The End of the Pier on + 577 more book reviews
Brilliantly delineating the inner lives of her characters, Martha Grimes tells a rich, startling story about parents and children - and what can happen when the balance of pleasure and pain is irrevocably tipped.


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