Review: Outstanding mystery
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2012
I am happy to be  the first to review this book. It was featured on the WoMen's Literary Cafe yesterday. I downloaded it  and immediately started to read it. I could not put it down. I finished it last night. It is set in southeast Georgia in 1969, it begins with the heroine frying her extremely abusive husband in the tub with a hair dryer. But she cannot understand why everyone in town, including the hunky sheriff,  is determined to accept it as an accident and cover up the justified murder. Everyone is looking for something that they thought her dead husband had when she killed him--only she has no idea what it might be. Her mother is known as the town slut, whose story  actually began at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked. But nothing, absolutely nothing , is as it seems. The book is an easy read, despite a somewhat complicated plot which is easy to follow--considering that nothing is as it appears. I had to keep reminding myself that the setting is 1969 and not today.The plot involves underground Nazis (sent to the US in the late 1930's--there is an  historical basis to this) joining the KKK to cleanse this southern town of blacks, Jews, and even the sheriff (who is half Cherokee) as well as anyone that does not share their hated beliefs. I grew up in North Georgia in the turbulent 60's, just as things wewe changing drastically in the South. Do not dismiss this story as fantasy that could not have happened. It was within the realm of possibility then, but not today. But we must never forget that we can be doomed to repeat the past if we forget the tragedies of the past.But first and foremost, this book is wonderful entertainment. It has a happy ending--for the good guys and long prison terms or possible death sentences for some of the evil persons. At that time treason was considered a serious crime--even though it is no longer considered serious in the US today.This a page turning suspense thriller that I highly recommend. I look forward to reading other novels by this author.