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“The fact is that during the last year I have killed three young people”: A pleasant waterfront community in California is subjected to a series of seemingly random killings, the victims all children. Dolores Hitchens’ intricately plotted novel explores a town’s collective terror, as the inhabitants slowly come to realize that one of their neighbors is engaged in a terrible and protracted campaign of murder for motives impossible to guess. The Watcher expertly explores the resulting mood of anguish and mutual suspicion, and the vulnerability of the young people who are the inexplicable targets of violent evil.
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“An absolute stunner, hands down my favourite crime novel I've read in quite some time. Hitchens crafted a top-notch suspense narrative via a succession of scenes of well-drawn characters dealing with the emotional fallout of loss and the constraints of the society they live in. I can think of few more haunting lines than when the police detective Archer is interviewing a bereaved father who is trying to hold it together as the case of his daughter's death is reopened like a painful wound, and the cop reflects that his salary doesn't pay him enough to handle what he sees when he looks in the grieving man's eyes. Recently some high profile crime lit figures did their best to restore Margaret Millar to her deserved place in the pantheon. Can we do Dolores Hitchens next? I'm happy that Library of America has given some of her works the e-book treatment, but she deserves a print volume of her own. Or the "Collected Millar" treatment.”
About Dolores Hitchens
Dolores Hitchens (1907–1973) was a prolific mystery and suspense writer, the author of Sleep With Strangers (1955), Fools' Gold (1958), and The Watcher (1959), among many other works, under her own name, and twenty additional suspense novels as D. B. Olsen. She was one of eight writers whose work was collected in Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940 and 50s, published in the Library of America series in 2015.
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