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Book Review of Strange Piece of Paradise

Strange Piece of Paradise
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In the summer of 1977 Terri Jantz and her roommate Shayna Weiss pitch a tent in the desert of centrol Oregon. As they sleep, a man in a pickup truck deliberatly runs over the tent. He than attactes them with an axe. The story is carried to almost newspaper in the country. Both girls survive, but Shayna suffers from amnesia, while Terri is left with memories of the attack.
Fifteen years later, Terri returns to the small town where she was almosted murdered. To her surprise she finds that no one was ever charged with the crime. She sets out to discover the man with the axe. Ultimately, she finds herself face-to-face with the suspected axeman.