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This Wild Wild Country (Inga Vesper) – book review

Robert Goodman2 years ago2 years ago04 mins

Inga Vesper’s debut novel The Long, Long Afternoon was a crime novel set in a perfect Los Angeles suburb in the 1950s. Vesper used that scenario to get beneath the façade of the perfect housewife and community of the time to reveal the racism, infidelity and drug use that sat beneath the surface. Her second…

The Long, Long Afternoon (Inga Vesper) – book review

Robert Goodman4 years ago4 years ago04 mins

Inga Vesper’s debut crime novel The Long, Long Afternoon takes readers into the Stepford world of 1950s Los Angeles and then blows it up from the inside. When the book opens, seemingly devoted housewife Joyce Hayney has disappeared. The investigation into that disappearance will reveal cracks in the façade of her marriage and the community…

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This Wild Wild Country (Inga Vesper) – book review

The Long, Long Afternoon (Inga Vesper) – book review