I should have read the backcover "decidedly adult foray" so the descriptive sex scenes didnot surprise me.But once got over the shock,it really was not that bad. The murder mystery was good. I especially liked that ambiguouaness of the narrator -good guy?bad guy?

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Intelligent & well written, I found it hard to put down.

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A great read, keeps you guessing till the surprise end!

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"...follow the narrative down a road of personal discovery and shocking revelation, and just when you think you've got everything mapped Thayer twists down another avenue of inquiry you hadn't even considered." Amazon

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I really enjoyed this book! It definitely wasn't a horror novel but it was a great mystery. Thayer really made me feel as if I were in Wisconsin in 1960, and for that it was very good. I didn't think the novel and crime descriptions were too graphic but as vague as I thought Thayer was, I was still able to get a clear enough picture of the characters and events in my mind. Overall, although I enjoyed the book, I didn't think the plot was very original. I'll be keeping an eye out for more of Thayer's work but I won't necessarily be tracking more of his books down.

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Publishers Weekly
Shockwaves rock a 1960s small town when the grisly shotgun murder of two leading citizens sets the town's deputy sheriff against the sheriff and the politically powerful Gunn Club set. Deputy Pliny Pennington has carried a torch for Maggie Butler since their Kickapoo Falls, Wis., high school days, though she scornfully rejected him in favor of boys higher up the social ladder. When she is found in the middle of a wheat field with her face blown off beside her dead husband, Michael, Pliney is assigned the case and is promptly targeted by sinister forces intent on framing him for the murders. Shaken by the killings, a state cop admits to joining Maggie and Michael in sex games; Senate candidate Webster Sprague and his wife, Caren, were involved, too. Events get complex when Caren, who's seemingly run away with lots of Webster's money, calls Pliny long distance and feeds him clues that lead to sex film tapes giving leverage over Webster and perhaps revealing the killer in the wheat field. But just as Pliny gets close to a solution, he finds himself set up to take the fall for an even more heinous crime than the double murder, one linked to the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy presidential race. Though the political connection is less than credible, Thayer has a knack for building tension and defining place, and his smalltown sinners are all too believable. The spectacular ending is only slightly marred by the questionable plot device that gets Pliny there. Agent, Elaine Koster. (Mar.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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This one is a Mystery, horror book. I really couldnt get into it. It is a man who is a retired lawman and he is telling the story of the woman he loved his entire life. The girl died in a cornfield in 1960. It was okay. My husband read it adn loved it so much he bought 2 more Steve Thayer books so he says 5 stars

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An adult foray leads to murder. Gruesome, disturbing and erotically charged. A must read!!

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