“Most had made lives they enjoyed and would only compromise for a very shiny white knight with a particularly breathtaking steed. What more could a young mother need or want? Then Polly comes along and with her two young daughters discovers a kindred spirit in Marshall, easy going, pleasant, loving, concerned. This reader needed to see a meaningful conclusion, although I’d certainly predicted from the beginning the revelation. Not a book to undertake without some trigger warnings-it’s twisted, dark, and suspenseful and (perhaps just a King horror novel) difficult for me not to just DNF. I might be more inclined to believe the author might have been Dean Koontz, but come to think of it, I’ve not read a Koontz book quite so viciously, violently graphic (and with children as well?). Oh, dear.Īnd I’m having a seriously difficult time trying to visualize that the same author who writes about Anna Pigeon and her experiences in the park service is the same beautiful lady whose author photo is shown below. Okay, I’m one of those caught up in the author’s name and just blindly grabbed the book written by Nevada Barr, too late to notice it was NOT part of the Anna Pigeon series. However, as Polly begins to settle into her new life, she becomes uneasy about her husband’s increasing dark moods, fearing that Danny may be influencing Marshall in ways she cannot understand.īut what of the ominous prediction by a New Orleans tarot card reader, who proclaims that Polly will murder her husband? What, if any, is the Marchands’ connection to the infamous “Butcher Boy” multiple homicide? And could Marshall and his eccentric brother be keeping a dark secret from Polly, one that will shatter the happiness she has forever prayed for? My Review: When Polly’s two young daughters from her previous marriage are likewise taken with Marshall, she marries him. Marshall, a lifelong bachelor, spends most of his time with his brother Danny. She finds him attractive, charming, and intelligent. Lonely, that is, until she encounters architect Marshall Marchand. No stranger to tragedy, Polly was a runaway at the age of fifteen, escaping a nightmarish Mississippi childhood. Now, in present-day New Orleans, Polly Deschamps finds herself at yet another lonely crossroads in her life. In 1971, the state of Minnesota was rocked by the “Butcher Boy” incident, as coverage of a family brutally murdered by one of their own swept across newspapers and television screens nationwide.
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