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Not Comin' Home to You

by Lawrence Block, Paul Kavanagh · 1974

Paul Kavanagh series

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He is Jimmie John Hall, "free and white and 22". Her name is Betty Dienhardt, plain, friendless, and oppressed by a bleak home life. In each other, they find a chance for love and fulfillment. But they are doomed. For Jimmie John has already embarked on a killing spree on the backroads of the Southwest that will leave 14 innocent people dead.

Genre
mysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thiscrimecrimeMore like thisLess of thisthrillerthrillerMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1970s1970sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 220 pages

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