Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Book Review of Spencerville

Spencerville
reviewed on + 84 more book reviews


The book finds a man who leaves/retires from his secretive government job and returns to the boyhood farm, in the town where the girl he dated in high school and college, and had hardly seen since he left her to go to Vietnam many years ago.

She has since married the town jerk who they grew up with, only now he's the town sheriff. Old flames rekindle and Revenge runs HIGH when this plot takes off. The abused wife finding her lost love back in town leads to a great hide and seek escape in which it's surprising who wins, only to have it climatically end with a showdown by a cabin in the woods.

Demille describes his characters so vividly we feel as if we are right there with them. A good old fashioned American tale that shows how you can be TRAPPED in a small town despite it's boundaries being so close...I strongly recommend you read this book if you have not read any of his others. A great page turner!