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 The Sporting Club bySinclair Browning Bantam 306 pages, 2000 ISBN 0553579436 Reviewed by PJ Nunn Read our review of The Last Song Dogs Read our interview with the author Private investigator Trade Ellis has an enviable life. Her ranch near Tucson is peaceful and business is good enough to keep the bills paid. Still, she's reluctant to turn down a referral from a friend, even when the case seems a little bizarre. Trade's first meeting with new client Victoria rapidly moves from pleasant to strange. The well-known romance writer claims to be remembering hair-rising things from her childhood. Filled with tales of family picnics that ended with Victoria's father and his friends bludgeoning black people to death, Trade goes home convinced that she'll do a preliminary investigation and find no evidence to support the claims. There's no way something like that could have happened in Tucson thirty years ago. As she expected, Trade finds nothing to support Victoria's spotty memory. But Victoria insists that one victim was accompanied by two small children who were also killed, and that's a picture that Trade can't shake. What if it's true? With a little luck and a lot of persistence, Trade begins to uncover a horrifying secret. Soon, she's not only fighting for the truth, she's fighting for her own life. In The Sporting Club, Sinclair Browning has tackled a topic that many are reluctant to acknowledge. Any reader who picks up this book will be challenged by an extraordinary representation of human responses, to horrifying realities that many experienced while others looked away. Browning has taken the unthinkable, based on a true case, and woven it into a work of mystery fiction that soars. With laughter and tears, absurdity and brutal honesty, Browning has skills that show great depth. This tale is proof that it is never too late for justice. |
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