Helpful Score: 3
First off I must tell you Stuart Woods is a truely amzing author. As for Chiefs, I couldn't put the book down. I love the characters he puts in his books. They come alive as you are reading and you can't wait to find out what's going to happen to them next. I've ordered all the "Will Lee" series so I can get right into the next one as soon as I finish the one I'm reading.
Helpful Score: 3
Chiefs is the first in Stuart Woods' long list of books. It is about police chiefs from a small in Georgia over a few decades as they look for a serial killer. It introduces characters who will appear in other books by Woods. It is my favorite of his books because it gives a history to his stories.
Helpful Score: 2
This is Woods' first book and just a little bit different from all his subsequent books. While it technically isn't part of the Will Lee series, I recommend reading this first.
I really enjoyed this.
I really enjoyed this.
Helpful Score: 1
I really enjoyed this book -- not so much for the story (although that was good) but because of the insight it provided about racism and eventual integration in the South. I thought there were many admirable characters in this book as well as the toads.
Helpful Score: 1
Thoroughly enjoyed this book! Great storyline, loveable characters, interesting Southern history... did not want to put it down, and couldn't wait to see what would happen next.
One bitter morning in 1920,the naked body of an unidentified boy is discovered in the woods outside the small town of Delano,Georgia. The murder goes unsolved-but not unremembered.For over a span of forty years,the desperate search for the brutal and elusive murderer will consmue the lives of three different police chiefs and their families. From the sleepy days of post WWI America to the bitter racial turmoil of the 60's,Chiefs is a haunting novel that unforgettably evokes the life of one southern town,its leaders,and its people. A town whose deceptively peaceful surface is shattered by the on-going menace of a killer's strange and terrible obession.
Southern mystery crossing multiple generations
Good read
Good read
This is a fast-paced mystery that I think any mystery lover will enjoy!
In the winter of 1920, the first body is found in Delano, Ga. the naked brutalized corpse of a young boy. It is a crime too horrific to be ignored, the first of many that will span four decades, embroiling three separate police chiefs in a remarkable manhunt that will expose the hatreds, fears, dark secrets and festering wounds beneath the surface of their sleepy god fearing community.
Excellent. I read this book many years ago. Now I want to reread it because the story was so intriguing.
"Chiefs" is part of a series of books with Will Lee. It starts in 1919 and traces a family into the 60's. It has a variety of lines; murder, intrigue, race, politics, and down-to-earth, good hearted people. Being from Georgia and growing up near where the story takes place, I found it particularly interseting and did not want to put it down. My second Stuart Woods book, but NOT my last.
Must read. Best book by Stuart Woods. In a style completely different from the Alex Cross novels. Also the first book in a series of stories about the Lee Family.
An interesting, well-crafted story, but I thought it was too long. If you are interested in reading the Will Lee series, this book provides the background of Will Lee's family.
A great legal/cop thriller covering 3 generations cops in a rural southern town as it comes to grips with the changing racial laws and moral codes of modern America.
This is the first Wood's fiction. Set in the southern town of Delano, the story spans 40+ years. Three very different chiefs of the town's police force try to solve a series of suspicious deaths. It is a compelling read of the social changes in the American town during turbulent times. I loved it!
Very interesting book spanning decades in a small Georgia town.
A story about Delano, Georgia where murders take place over 4 decades and 3 police chiefs.
A LITTLE STRANGE BUT COMPELLING
Different cover than that shown in stock photo....GREAT READING.....Brings the reader back to the 20s, 40s, 60s.....about a killer's strange obsession
A riveting story of the Deep South that mixes murder mystery with political intrigue.
Enjoyed this book a lot. Interesting premise based on a true happening in Woods' life.
A captivating story of three chiefs of police that serve the small Georgia town of Delano. The reader not only reads the intriguing tales of the Chiefs, but watches the town and Delano grow and the South grow through many changes. There is a lot of suspense and intrigue through this book. It will capture you and hold you until the end.
The story of three generations of lawmen in a small Southern town. The mystery begins in 1920 when the first body of a young boy is found, naked and brutalized, near the small town of Delano, Georgia. Over four decades, this crime hangs in the background as the lives of three police chiefs play out against the canvas filled with racial tensions, hatred, fears, dark secrets, festering wounds and political intrigue.
This is Stuart Woods very first book. Really three stories in one, spanning two generations. Very strong story line...highly recommended!
this is a very interesting book and kept me interested the whole time
This is an interesting story about three police chiefs that span about four decades in a small town south of Atlanta Ga that mixes murder mystery with political intrique and race relations in the Deep South. Good read.
For the people of Delano, Georgia, 1920 was a landmark year. that winter they elected their first police chief, built the fir jail...and discovered the first body--the naked, brutalized corpse of a young boy. So began a forty-year manhunt that would embroil three generations of small-town police chiefs in the dark, twisted secrets of their sleepy, God-fearing community--and expose a seamy underbelly of hatred, corruption, and perversion too terrible to imagine...and too virulent to ignore.
I am a white woman dating a black man and this book showed me things I have never known about the world of prejudice in the old days. I loved, loved, loved this book even though at times I was made to feel very angry. Very good book.
Hope you enjoy it if you choose it.
Happy reading.
Linda
Hope you enjoy it if you choose it.
Happy reading.
Linda
One Of Woods Best!!!!!
Great book, the kind you wish you hadn't read so you can read again!
I highly recommend this serial killer mystery by Stuart Woods. It held my attention as the narrative wove through years and generations of mystery in a small southern town.
Great start of the Woods series
I really enjoyed this book, it was a little slow in the beginning, but then it takes off
Excellent book. Good writer.
Woods does it again! This is the first and best of a series.
An excellent mystery -- a saga of race, politics and murder in a small Southern town.
I enjoyed all of this series of books.
The first body is found in 1920, a young boy naked and brutalized. Four decades bring more bodies and no idea of the killer, until three police chiefs comprise a manhunt that will expose the vicious truth. Great book.
A good book.
I absolutely loved this book. Stayed up half the night reading it. Stuart Woods is one of my favorite authors. He never fails to please, but this one is his best.
I liked this book, the concept was really different but it worked really well I thought.
this is stuart woods first book and probably his best
I enjoyed this book. Very easy reading and a good story
