In this story, a woman receives an unexpected letter from a man who has been on death row for over ten years. He was a kidnapper and serial killer, and she was the only one of his victims who lived. What does he want?
I'd call this a classic "heist story," the kind where you want the bad guys to get away with the huge theft, and at the same time you also want them to get caught. This was a good story and I enjoyed it more than I have John Grisham's other recent books.
I found this in the book exchange at the library in Shelby County, Alabama. It's by a local author, and I'm always interested in things like that.
The story was pretty good, but unexpected. It's about a Vietnamese girl who flees the fall of Saigon in the mid-seventies and ends up in Birmingham, Alabama, of all places. I liked the book but I wasn't sure about the ending.
This was an archeological mystery, which is not a genre I've encountered before. It centered around a fictional ethnic group in Alabama,(which shared some traits with existing ones) and was pretty interesting.