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One rainy night, when he was nine years old, Steve Farris returns home from school to discover that his father had murdered his mother and his teenage brother and sister; then he had waited two hours for Steve before finally vanishing, as far as anyone knows, off the face of the earth.
Now forty-four and a family man himself, Steve has coped with the horror of his childhood mainly by not dealing with it. But one day a woman comes into his life who is writing a book on men who kill their families. She takes him back over the decades, prodding his memory, furnishing new evidence, retracing the murderous steps his father took that day and the weeks before, until the past behings to come alive, to furnish a host of unexpected twists--and to have devasting consequences for the present. For Steve and his family, it beocmes harrowingly clear: Memories, too, can kill.
Now forty-four and a family man himself, Steve has coped with the horror of his childhood mainly by not dealing with it. But one day a woman comes into his life who is writing a book on men who kill their families. She takes him back over the decades, prodding his memory, furnishing new evidence, retracing the murderous steps his father took that day and the weeks before, until the past behings to come alive, to furnish a host of unexpected twists--and to have devasting consequences for the present. For Steve and his family, it beocmes harrowingly clear: Memories, too, can kill.
