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The secrets on Chicory Lane

Raymond Benson

2019 · Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated · 264 pages

MurderCapital punishmentFictionMurder -- FictionCapital punishment -- Fiction

About this book

Sixty-one-year-old Shelby Truman, a romance novelist, has received a request to visit her childhood friend, Eddie, who is on Death Row. Though mentally ill, Eddie is scheduled to be executed for the disturbing, brutal murders of his wife and unborn child. -- amazon.com

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Quiet, observational, and lightly philosophical — the prose is the point. Best for readers who already enjoy literary fiction and aren't reading for plot. Frustrates anyone expecting clear stakes.

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