
Mary Ann B. (
mab52) wrote on 11/14/2007...
This is the first Wood's fiction. Set in the southern town of Delano, the story spans 40+ years. Three very different chiefs of the town's police force try to solve a series of suspicious deaths. It is a compelling read of the social changes in the American town during turbulent times. I loved it!
Very interesting book spanning decades in a small Georgia town.
A LITTLE STRANGE BUT COMPELLING

Dexter D. (
ddonham) wrote on 11/12/2006...
Southern mystery crossing multiple generations
Good read
A story about Delano, Georgia where murders take place over 4 decades and 3 police chiefs.
A great legal/cop thriller covering 3 generations cops in a rural southern town as it comes to grips with the changing racial laws and moral codes of modern America.

Debra M. (
dreamer) wrote on 10/3/2006...
In the winter of 1920, the first body is found in Delano, Ga. the naked brutalized corpse of a young boy. It is a crime too horrific to be ignored, the first of many that will span four decades, embroiling three separate police chiefs in a remarkable manhunt that will expose the hatreds, fears, dark secrets and festering wounds beneath the surface of their sleepy god fearing community.

John W. (
tsewnhoj) wrote on 10/2/2006...
Must read. Best book by Stuart Woods. In a style completely different from the Alex Cross novels. Also the first book in a series of stories about the Lee Family.
"Chiefs" is part of a series of books with Will Lee. It starts in 1919 and traces a family into the 60's. It has a variety of lines; murder, intrigue, race, politics, and down-to-earth, good hearted people. Being from Georgia and growing up near where the story takes place, I found it particularly interseting and did not want to put it down. My second Stuart Woods book, but NOT my last.

Jane J. (
cranbery) wrote on 11/16/2005...
Great book, the kind you wish you hadn't read so you can read again!