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dark places::Now, it is almost twentyfive years later, and libby, depressed, angry and broke has agreed to attend a meeting of the kill club, a strange conglomerate of people obsessed with famous murders.
In hauntingly compelling prose, this wonderfully talented author deftly unfolds the story of what really happened during the early morning hours of january 3, 1985, and how searching for, and uncovering, that truth will change the lives of libby and ben.
Besides libby, the most fascinating character in the book is that of ben, the awkward, aimless, angry boy, tottering on the brink of manhood.
Ben, yearning for the fatherfigure which he never had, and being raised in a povertystricken household by a single overwhelmed mother, surrounded by bothersome little sisters, is such a troubled, unlikeable protagonist.
Yet this author makes the reader see the good in ben and how much he wants to fit in, even as the story moves the angstridden teenager inexorably toward the unspeakable crimes which are at the center of the narrative.
She is almost dickensian in her ability to paint a word picture of a situation or a character in a few phrases.
Stuck in a series of mobile homes or rotting ranch houses all across kansas.
Like we all got stunted that night.
It is a wise, evocative character study a glimpse into the lives of people who are lost and are struggling to find their way in a dangerous world.
Some never find a path, some show others a path, and some find refuge which can be either heaven or hell.
But all of these people for better or worse matter, and their intertwined lives are a lesson to the reader that even the tiniest action may have huge unintended consequences.