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Fiction

SheilaT

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3. "Quiet Dell" by Jayne Anne Phillips.

Reply to DUgosh (Original post)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 11:34 PM

Nov 2013

It's a novelized version of the murder of a woman and her three children in the summer of 1931 by a man who was a serial killer. I'm 150 pages in (438 pages total) and so far it's quite riveting.

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