This book is more or less a page-burner version of Lake Wobegon Days.

I wouldn’t mind if this guy just kept writing and writing on this story.  I most certainly would read and read, as long as the pages kept coming.  It has the languid, lazydays feel of all the greatest “growing up smalltown” novels (ie To Kill A Mockingbird, etc) but with a murder mystery woven in.

This brings up an extremely interesting character in the book who is incidentally a failed writer of just this sort of thing.  I’m not going to say more about it cuz I really hope you all find this book and read it.   With summer right around the corner I feel that this is “just the thing”.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR