The Far Cry
by Fredric Brown· 2010
Once upon a time, in a lonely house near Taos, a girl named Jenny Ames was murdered. No one knew where she had come from, or why she had died, or what had become of her killer.
Eight years later a troubled man named George Weaver moved into the same house and discovered that nothing is more treacherously seductive than an unsolved murder. Unless it’s a beautiful and enigmatic victim.
The Far Cry is at once a seamlessly constructed novel of detection and a harrowing portrayal of psychic meltdown.
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Once upon a time, in a lonely house near Taos, a girl named Jenny Ames was murdered. No one knew where she had come from, or why she had died, or what had become of her killer. Eight years later a troubled man named George Weaver moved into the same house and discovered that nothing is more treacherously seductive than an unsolved murder. Unless it’s a beautiful and enigmatic victim. The Far Cry is at once a seamlessly constructed novel of detection and a harrowing portrayal of psychic meltdown.