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Title: ..and that's it?
Review: Ketchum has an engaging writing style and a vivid sense of description. The books opens with a gruesome double homicide and then we leap forward five years. At that point we learn more about the characters, and we learn more, and we learn more- actually your stop learning more and keep learning the same things over and over. There are all kinds of "mysterious" things set up in this tale (an erstwhile cat that gets chapters to itself, a new girl suddenly in town from Fresno with some bad habits) but the shoe never drops on them- the cat BTW serves no function. It isn't as if any of these things cause any real tension mostly idle curiosity. The book isn't frightening and the main villan turns out ot be such a small time punk he's really almost pitable. Worse, when the climax finally does come it is suitably gruesome but mostly pointless (one actually will spend some time think, what brought this one) and pretty much devoid of any feeling.
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