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The Innocents (The Myers/Benton Chronicles Book 1)

5/5 ( ratings)

San Francisco Book Review: "Jeff Lee writes with an excellent sense for tension and humanity...1955 comes to life in this novel in a profound way...'The Innocents' is a highly readable, tension-filled novel that will hold readers through to the very end."

Karl Myers is a World War II Veteran who, having lost his family prior to the War, has settled into his job in 1955 as a police chief in a small Pennsylvania town. His duties dramatically change when a young boy is brutally murdered. The victim's sister and his best friend are the only witnesses, but what the sister has witnessed has left her catatonic, and the friend provides little in the way of helpful information. While pursuing one dead end after another, Myers finds himself in the sights of the friends mother. The mother is a bright, sensitive and beautiful woman married to an ex-Marine who runs her life as though she were a buck private. The murder and the mother's search for an escape from her marriage are resolved, but in a way Myers never expects. "The Innocents" explores a seldom acknowledged dark side of the "Greatest Generation" by providing a story about the desperate life of an American homemaker and her battered and abused son.
FOR MATURE READERS

Pages: 290

Format: Kindle Edition

The Innocents (The Myers/Benton Chronicles Book 1)

5/5 ( ratings)

San Francisco Book Review: "Jeff Lee writes with an excellent sense for tension and humanity...1955 comes to life in this novel in a profound way...'The Innocents' is a highly readable, tension-filled novel that will hold readers through to the very end."

Karl Myers is a World War II Veteran who, having lost his family prior to the War, has settled into his job in 1955 as a police chief in a small Pennsylvania town. His duties dramatically change when a young boy is brutally murdered. The victim's sister and his best friend are the only witnesses, but what the sister has witnessed has left her catatonic, and the friend provides little in the way of helpful information. While pursuing one dead end after another, Myers finds himself in the sights of the friends mother. The mother is a bright, sensitive and beautiful woman married to an ex-Marine who runs her life as though she were a buck private. The murder and the mother's search for an escape from her marriage are resolved, but in a way Myers never expects. "The Innocents" explores a seldom acknowledged dark side of the "Greatest Generation" by providing a story about the desperate life of an American homemaker and her battered and abused son.
FOR MATURE READERS

Pages: 290

Format: Kindle Edition

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