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Fletcher & Croft
The Uncles
The Uncles
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Raymond Chandler once wrote that a detective story is a “tragedy with a happy ending.” Alan Fogg turns that definition on its head in this police procedural that starts with a murder that pleases just about everybody.
Four respectable, middle-aged, middle-class men step on the slippery slope of vigilantism when they appoint themselves the protectors of a young unmarried woman bullied by her obstetrician. Then an abused wife. Then an abused wife and her two sons. Their extralegal activities inevitably result in – what else? – a murder.
We follow the local cops as they proceed with workmanlike care to investigate the four suspects as they sort through the tangled personal relationships in a small city.
There are two intertwined narratives: the police investigation and, in episodic flashbacks, the inexorable path to the murder. They form the double helix of the book’s DNA. The nucleotides that tie them together are the personalities and incidents of small town life.
Four respectable, middle-aged, middle-class men step on the slippery slope of vigilantism when they appoint themselves the protectors of a young unmarried woman bullied by her obstetrician. Then an abused wife. Then an abused wife and her two sons. Their extralegal activities inevitably result in – what else? – a murder.
We follow the local cops as they proceed with workmanlike care to investigate the four suspects as they sort through the tangled personal relationships in a small city.
There are two intertwined narratives: the police investigation and, in episodic flashbacks, the inexorable path to the murder. They form the double helix of the book’s DNA. The nucleotides that tie them together are the personalities and incidents of small town life.
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