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Article: Murder but Not So Much Mystery
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 18, 2008
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FRESH KILLS
By Bill Loehfelm
Putnam. 326 pp. $24.95
Bill Loehfelm's first novel opens with his troubled hero, John
Sanders Jr., telling us, "I don't often answer my door with a gun in
my hand." But he does just that, because someone is banging on the
door, he lives in a tough part of Staten Island, and he's naked in
bed with a girlfriend named Molly. The person at the door proves to
be a policeman Sanders has known all his life, and he's come to
report that John Sanders Sr. has been murdered execution-style in
broad daylight on a street near his home. The policeman and his
partner, who's also known the Sanders family for decades, vow to
find the killer. Sanders himself, although he hates ...