272 pages
"In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas '32' Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. The incident shook the county - and perhaps Silas most of all. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town.
More than twenty years have passed. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has returned as a constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they've buried and ignored for decades." -Dust Jacket
I found this book on Amazon last year but had been waiting for the price to be right. It had potential. The book's description is intriguing. Throughout the story there were flashbacks to various times in Larry's and Silas's past which I thought was a great way to educate the reader without giving everything away. Overall though, I was really disappointed. Why do "adult" novels have to have so much crap in them? Around page 180 I decided to just skim to the end to see who had killed Cindy Walker and Tina Rutherford and to see how Silas and Larry resolved their relationship. There's a pretty obvious twist that's hinted at towards the beginning of the book. Basically, the whole gist of this story is that things could have turned out much differently if Silas had just spoken up and stood up for Larry. I'm putting this book in my small stack of books to take to the thrift store. It's not worth keeping or recommending.
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