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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10045121580X
ISBN-139780451215802
eBay Product ID (ePID)4038261575
Product Key Features
Book TitleChiefs
Number of Pages608 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Small Town & Rural, Crime, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year2005
GenreFiction
AuthorStuart Woods
Book SeriesWill Lee Novel Ser.
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight13.2 Oz
Item Length7.5 in
Item Width4.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsPraise for Chiefs "A fascinating, compelling tale."-- The New York Times "A riveting story of the deep south that mixes murder mystery with political intrigue."-- Publishers Weekly "Excellent."-- Roanoke Times & World News More Praise for Stuart Woods "Stuart Woods is a no-nonsense, slam-bang storyteller."-- Chicago Tribune "A world-class mystery writer...I try to put Woods's books down and I can't."-- Houston Chronicle "Mr. Woods, like his characters, has an appealing way of making things nice and clear."-- The New York Times "Woods certainly knows how to keep the pages turning."-- Booklist "Since 1981, readers have not been able to get their fill of Stuart Woods' New York Times bestselling novels of suspense."-- Orlando Sentinel
Dewey Edition21
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Series Volume Number1
Number of Volumes1 vol.
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Grade ToUP
SynopsisStuart Woods' Edgar Award-winning novel spans fifty years of racial tension, politics, and murder in the small Southern town of Delano, Georgia, where a depraved killer claims his innocent victims even as three very different generations of policemen seek to stop him., Stuart Woods's Edgar Award-winning debut novel--a classic American mystery saga about three generations of lawmen tangled in a web of passion, secrets, destiny, and murder in their small Southern town... In the winter of 1920, the first body is found in Delano, Georgie--the naked, brutalized corpse of a young boy. It is a crime too horrific to be ignored, the first of many that will span four decades--embroiling three police chiefs in a remarkable manhunt that will expose the hatreds, fear, and festering wounds beneath the surface of their sleepy God-fearing community., Stuart Woods's Edgar Award-winning debut novel--a classic American mystery saga about three generations of lawmen tangled in a web of passion, secrets, destiny, and murder in their small Southern town... In the winter of 1920, the first body is found in Delano, Georgia--the naked, brutalized corpse of a young boy. It is a crime too horrific to be ignored, the first of many that will span four decades--embroiling three police chiefs in a remarkable manhunt that will expose the hatreds, fear, and festering wounds beneath the surface of their sleepy God-fearing community.