Halloween Town or Murder Town? Sometimes it's the same thing... (Review of No Rest for the Wicked)
Small towns. Unless you’ve lived in been a regular visitor to one, they’re kinda hard to wrap your head around. Like realizing your neighbors know so much about you... stuff which everyone else in town eventually winds up knowing, too. (Small towns, they do love to talk.) But gossip is rarely truth—at least, not the full truth—which means all sorts of misunderstandings can happen. And, when the veracity of such isn’t questioned (or refuted)? Hurt feelings, disappointments, and resentments can linger for years ... as in Rachel Louise Adams’s debut thriller, No Rest for the Wicked . Dolores Hawthorne fled Little Horton, Wisconsin (aka “Halloween Town”, thanks to its lavish celebration of the seasonally-macabre) nearly two decades ago... and didn’t plan on returning. Ever. But, when someone from the FBI calls her in L.A., saying her father, ex-mayor of Little Horton and former U.S. Senator, has gone missing—and ...