![]() ![]() At least one scene crosses the line from raw humor into what could only be gothic fantasy, raising sudden questions as to the reliability of the narrator. Together, they cast a foreboding mood over the setting that put me in mind of a Nicholas Cage movie, "Red Rock West," and the book has some good chuckles that are on a par with those in the flick. ![]() The villains and low-lifes here are easy to dislike, and there is absolutely no shortage of them. Like all private eyes, I suppose, he promptly gets on the cops' bad side. The plot of this whodunit is closer to that of (my notion of) the classic detective story than that of The Blue Cheer: a formidable rich widow living in Northern Virginia horse country hires a reluctant private investigator, Frank Johnson, to get the truth about her daughter's death, which local law enforcement insists was due to a riding accident. ![]()
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