Patti M. reviewed on 3/20/2007 + 31 more book reviews

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.

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