Under the Lake
Stuart Woods. Simon & Schuster, $17.45 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-671-63332-5
The Edgar Award-winning author of Chiefs (basis of a TV miniseries) and the bestselling Deep Lie now offers a highly readable if somewhat overheated thriller-cum-gothic that includes murder, drug smuggling, faith healing, hallucinations, revenants and incest. A one-time ace reporter rents a cabin in a backwoods Georgia town, then stumbles upon and determines to solve the town mystery, which involves a seemingly affable sheriff, an autocratic town father and an incest-ridden family whose once-prosperous farm now lies under a lake. He joins forces with a plucky female reporter bent on proving that the sheriff is ""dirty,'' and there's never a dull moment as the story surges toward its exciting climax. The conclusion is a little too far-fetchedbut by that time readers have had more than their money's worth. Major ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates. (May 18)
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Reviewed on: 05/01/1987
Genre: Fiction
Analog Audio Cassette - 978-1-59040-248-1
Hardcover - 978-0-393-01928-5
Hardcover - 477 pages - 978-1-4104-3357-2
Library Binding - 448 pages - 978-0-7089-8490-1
Library Binding - 473 pages - 978-0-89621-846-8
Mass Market Paperbound - 978-0-380-70519-1
Mass Market Paperbound - 368 pages - 978-0-06-101417-8
Mass Market Paperbound - 400 pages - 978-0-451-23346-2
Open Ebook - 304 pages - 978-1-4767-0952-9
Paperback - 400 pages - 978-0-593-32865-1
