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Genuine thriller
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BLACK WATER by Jefferson Parker. HarperCollins, 338pp, $31.99.
Reviewed by Andrew Holden.
The true pleasure of reading is picking up something you think is
going to be complete drivel and discovering a cracking yarn instead.
Homicide detective Merci Rayborn is enveloped by the smell of
treachery -- her biggest case so far tore apart the sheriff's
department and even trashed the career of her own father. So when
she's called to investigate an apparent murder-suicide involving
an...
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