Cry Me a River:

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...But it took the narrator digresses, or so it might lar facet he hasn't seen a lot of before...

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...drunken sidekick, Ellis, has spied the Cry Me a River's story begins with abandoned vehicle of Wendle, a fellow CBethe Dufresne the image of a woman, a woman who cop...

...But he doesn't pretend even to himself that it approaches an explanation...

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...37 "I'd not, however, had much call to see a most devious manner of ne'er-do-well lishing intimacy, seems to be disinclined too many murdered ones since locally we afflicted evermore with a spectacular array to stretch a point, though why would he weren't given ourselves to that variety of of unsavory intentions," and Ellis with his need to in the company of cops like Dewey, mayhem...

...It is one of this novel's many strengths that it doesn't appear to have been written for that purpose at all...

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...The carnage that sets it all in motion is stumbled CRY ME A RIVER ly bizarre that I was reminded of the news- upon late one lazy night off a country road, T.R...

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...Down the hill in the brush, a pulpy "hadn't been born into loveliness though mass snagged on a thorn bush strikes the plainly she'd compensated, could man- excitable Ellis as a living, biting menace, oming as I do from a fami- ufacture well enough what she needed but turns out to be a chunk of Wendle's ly whose branches stretch of seduction, fabricate what she re- skull...

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...Biblical Hebrew and New Testament Greek, Princeton Theological Seminary staff Set in a small Virginia town and narrated by a cop, the novel has a timeless qual- June 21- July 9 Interpreting Paul's Letter to the Romans...

...She didn't have much who wasn't all that fond of Wendle, to sissippi, I have long been call to be beautiful too...

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...The clue has to do with his stepfather, Catch the Wade, who wasn't a policeman, but once was deputized and subsequently ended up deciding, without really planning to...

...Cry Me a River is a brilliant illustration of this intricate craft...

...This novel is a wholly unconventionFABRICATING THE REQUIRED CHARM al tale of crime and punishment, the kind of story that could never be resolved in a courtroom because certain crimes of the heart can't be written into law...