“Crisscrossing
Ohio with unusual somberness, Harry uncovers a truly hair-raising trail of
nasty sex, child abuse, blackmail, and multiple murder…You’ll see the solution
coming fifty pages before Harry does, but that won’t stop the shivers when it
finally arrives. More, much more, than a restaging of The Chill and The Far Side of
the Dollar: what Valin lacks in originality this time he makes up in
genuinely tragic power.”