Breakheart Hill
Thomas H. Cook. Crimeline, $7.99 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-553-57192-9
Cook's latest suspense novel centers on a murder in a small Southern town during the early years of desegregation. (June)
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Reviewed on: 07/01/1996
Genre: Fiction
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