Season of the Strangler

Season of the Strangler
ISBN-10
0385172923
ISBN-13
9780385172929
Pages
227
Language
English
Published
1982
Publisher
Doubleday
Author
Madison Jones

Description

In the late sixties during a hot summer fraught with racial tension, a small Alabama town is menaced by a series of unexplained murders that forces the townspeople to confront their long-hidden secrets and darkest fears

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