Book Review: Deader by the Lake by Doug Cummings

Courier News (Elgin, IL) | March 28, 2004| | Copyright

Be careful if you pick up Doug Cummings' detective thriller Deader by the Lake (iUniverse.com, $23.95); you might find yourself still turning pages at 3 a.m., feverishly piecing together clues, following up leads, desperately trying -- along with ace reporter Reno McCarthy -- to unravel the mystery of who killed Brooke Talmudge and why.

Sounds cheesy, but Cummings, a resident of Highland Park, makes the thriller genre hum with suspense by weaving a plot so intricate that a movie adaptation is probably out of the question. For a first novel, this 419-page monster is certainly ambitious and ...

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