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"Ed Gorman writes with intelligence and grace, about people we can believe in, facing situations we can imagine, reacting in ways that are truthful. He makes it real, and in his hands that reality can soar."Stephen Gallagher, from his introduction.
Twenty-one-year-old Spence returns to his hometown after two years in the Army and falls in love with Cindy Brasher, Homecoming Queen and town goddess to a long line of jealous men.
A string of robberies puts Spence at odds with his obsessive love for Cindy. One by one Spence's rivals are implicated in horrorific crimes.
Spence wonders how much Cindy knows and why she wants him, like her past boyfriends, to visit the old well in the woods...
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Shadow Games:
"What keeps you reading is not the traditional question of whodunit but the slick and artful ease with which Gorman portrays the alienated, uncaring world of his creations in in this darkly mesmeric novel." -
The London Sunday Times