Master of the delta
By: Thomas H. Cook
Publisher: Quercus; Mariner Books; Quercus Publishing Plc
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9781847242112; 9781847242129
Subjects: Children of criminals; Fiction; Murderers
Description: Jack Branch, the last son of an aristocratic Old South family, has returned to his hometown, taking on the job of teacher at the local high school. When he sets his students a paper entitled 'The Most Evil Person', he expects essays on historical tyrants and literary villains. He doesn't expect Eddie Miller's choice - his own father. Throughout his life, Eddie has been known as 'The Coed Killer's Son', because when Eddie was eight years old, his father killed a local college student, dismembered her body, and buried the pieces in a local forest. Eddie's investigation of his own father's dark secrets steadily widens until, ultimately, it encompasses the whole town.