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Book Review of The Claw

The Claw
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A Novel About the Ultimate Violation
by Norah Lofts
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Copyright: 1981
Book Club Edition

The psychic had given the police their only clue: The man was a model father and husband; yet once outside of his home he personified evil. Each of his seven victims remembered only the deadly talon.

Attack by attack, The Claw weaves a contemporary tale of quiet terror as the people in a peaceful Suffolk town discover they are harboring a brutal rapist . . . and gradually become actors in a macabre nightmare -- actors in a violent drama that stretches far beyond the boundaries of the imaginary Suffolk town that Norah Lofts has so chillingly brought to life.

Norah Lofts's novels, histories and biographies have been published to commercial success and critical acclaim for forty years, making her one of he best known writers in the English language. The Claw is a novel quite unlike any she has ever written.