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Title: What the...?
Review: This is not a hard-boiled crime. In fact there's not clear indication of a crime at all, just an unexplained dead person. And it's certainly not hard-boiled. The recounting of an unexplained death 25 years later by two senior citizens is more a study in quirky New England personalities than anything else.Also, it really irked me that characters living in 1980 refer to Diet Coke, BlockBuster Video and Starbucks coffee respectively two, five and seven years before they could have ever even heard of them. (maybe King couldn't afford hiring a fact-checker)If you're a King fan, you might like this. If you're looking for "Hard Case Crime" (as I was) keep looking, there are plenty of great examples of those in this series. (Girl with the Long Green Heart is great!)
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