| A riveting mystery debut of suspense,terror, and passion run amok. A young male prostitute is found mur-dered in the aisle of a Times Squaremovie theater his neck gruesomelysnapped--and the only clue is a tornreceipt from the Montpeller School forBoys bookstore. Christmas break is just a couple ofweeks away when Montpelier studentRussell Phillips fetches up dead. Head-master Lane, preferring to view Philllps sdeath as a suicide, opts to keep the school open for the remainder of theterm. But as the nights grow longer andcolder and more corpses begin to sur-face, it becomes all too clear that thestudents and faculty are being stalkedby a cool and calculating killer. The local police and school adminis-trators are baffled; there doesn t seemto be any rhyme or reason to the killer schoice of victims. Even so, many people ssuspicions focus on a single suspect--until he too turns up dead. A gripping tour de force by a fresh,new talent, Passion Play will keep thereader guessing until the final act.W. Edward Blain is the chairman ofthe English department at WoodberryForest School in Virginia. He is cur-rently working on a second novel. |
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