Chiefs
Book description
Stuart Woods’s Edgar Award-winning debut novel—a classic American mystery saga about three generations of lawmen tangled in a web of passion, secrets, destiny, and murder in their small Southern town...
In the winter of 1920, the first body is found in Delano, Georgie—the naked, brutalized corpse of a young boy.…
Why read it?
1 author picked Chiefs as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Stuart Woods's first book may be his best. Again, the setting of the book is rural Georgia, describing the terrain where I grew up and even mentioning the real cities where the fictional events took place.
I love the story because of my own growing up in small-town Georgia where my uncle was Chief of Police and other members of my family were attorneys. The flavor of the politics and how a murderer is discovered reminds me of the willful blindness and corruption that must take place for such perverse murders to happen.
From G's list on Southern rural crime.
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