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Book Review of Atticus

Atticus
Atticus
Author: Ron Hansen
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Paperback
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A Colorado rancher receives word that his rakehell younger son has committed suicide in Mexico, and sets out to claim the body and bring it home for burial. But he quickly discovers that things in Mexico are not quite what they seem to be.

Up to this point, the novel seems a pretty run-of-the-mill tale of a grieving man sussing out the oddities of a loved one's death, refusing to believe the official story, and trying to determine what really happened.

Then Hansen pulls the rug out from under the reader in the last chapter and the story becomes something else entirely.