Contrary Pleasure Author:John D. MacDonald Evil casts a long shadow and touches the innocent along with the guilty in this powerful, probing novel of a family who can no longer hid from the world or from each other. For years the Delevan image reflected only the best of everything -- wealth, position, influence, and the kind of expensive good looks that takes generations to cultivate. No... more » one dared suspect that their glittering facade, their cherished privacy masked hidden lusts, furtive pleasures, and twisted dreams which would soon erupt into a pattern of strange violence that threatened to destroy them all.« less