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<p><P>In a sleepy resort town, Maud Chadwick waits tables at the Rainbow Cafe. Her confidant is Sheriff Sam DeGheyn and what they have in common is obsession. Maude doesn't want her son to leave home, and Sam cannot let go of the unsolved murders of three local women &#151; or his intuition that the killer is still out there. How these lives intertwine reveals a rich and startling story of parents and children and the pain they cause one another.<br>&quot;Gripping.&quot;<br>CHICAGO SUN TIMES</p> <h3>Kirkus Reviews</h3> <p>Something completely different from the author of the popular, ever-so-British Inspector Jury mysteries (The Old Contemptibles, etc.). This time the setting is small-town America, the mystery is secondary (a psycho serial-killer of sporadic interest), and the emphasis instead is on earnest character-studies that never quite add up. The primary character under scrutiny is Maud Chadwick, a divorc,e in her late 40s who works as a diner waitress in sleepy La Porte, a town somewhere considerably "up north" from N.Y.C. Maud, dreamy and depressed, spends her free time obsessing about son Chad, 20, whose increasing adult-ness and separate-ness devastate her. She whiles aw

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Author

Grimes, Martha

Publisher

Ballantine books; Random House Publishing Group

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679411260

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Thriller, Mystery

Rating

3.43 / 5 (926 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14