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Title: Dull, quiet Vermont town filled with characters worthy of it
Review: Slow, dull-witted plot woven around a group of characters that can only be described as pathetic. It isn't that the story is bad, but that the story meanders like cold molasses and for what seems like an eternity. The stock characters include a pathetic woman, acon-man, a lust-tainted catholic priest, a small town, poor black victims of murder. Trite and unconvincing not a novel worthy of all the hooplah.
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