Happy Bookers Discussion Group

Next meeting: August 25  at 7:00 p.m.

Down River

by John Hart

In this Edgar Award-winning mystery novel, a man acquitted of murder returns to his home five years later, where townspeople - even family members - still believe him guilty. He finds himself trapped in the middle of a new case of murder as the people around him begin to die and he becomes the prime suspect in the crimes.

"The almost Shakespearean snarl of family ties is complicated by a very modern struggle between economic progress and love for the land, between haves and have-nots... This book should settle once and for all the question of whether thrillers and mysteries can also be literature." Publishers Weekly

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