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"The Right Edge of Evil" is a sharp, taut, well-told mystery. John Hickman takes the stock figures of the Sam Spade gendre and baptizes them in authentic Southern waters. The conflicted private eye, the stalwart police chief, the phlilandering but well intentioned sheriff, the eery fortune teller and her simple but brave son all are genuine Georgians. In the preachers widow, at turns sultry and vunerabable, Hickman creates a human vortex around whom his story revolves, With the Deuce, he has envisioned a uniquely evil villian. "The Right Edge of Evil" will keep readers turning the pages to find out what happens next.
W. Winston Skinner, Newnan Times Herald
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