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Summary: This is a review from Forbes October 2, 2000 issue
Review: Billheimers books are fun and suspenseful. His West Virginia settings make his books unique.
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Summary: Great Book for West Virginians
Review: Billheimers books are fun and suspenseful. His West Virginia settings make his books unique.
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Summary: Even better than Contrary Blues
Review: Highway Robbery is even better than Contrary Blues which was outstanding. Mixes life, mystery, humor, and romance with almost perfect pitch. Usually I am a little disappointed with the answer at the end of a mystery novel. This time I was not. The twists and turns were cleverly constructed. And the tale is witty and insightful with out the mystery.
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Summary: Even better than Contrary Blues
Review: Highway Robbery is even better than Contrary Blues which was outstanding. Mixes life, mystery, humor, and romance with almost perfect pitch. Usually I am a little disappointed with the answer at the end of a mystery novel. This time I was not. The twists and turns were cleverly constructed. And the tale is witty and insightful with out the mystery.
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Summary: Another solid effort by a writer destined for success
Review: In California, Owen Allison struggles to restart his business as well as hoping that he and his ex-wife Judith can make a go of it the second time around. However, everything is placed on hold when his mother pleads with him to return home to help his brother George with some problems.Owen returns to Barkley, West Virginia to learn that the human remains found by a construction crew may be that of his father who drowned over three decades ago when a dam broke. Instead, the bones belong to the father of Owen's childhood friend Bobby. George, as the state Highway Commissioner, is being pressured to accept projects he feels are undependable but he refuses. Soon George is arrested for the murder of an environmental activist. Owen places his own life in jeopardy trying to prove the innocence of his sibling. John Billheimer has written an entertaining down home mystery in which the "good ole boys" star in a thirty-five-year-old murder case. Owen is a nice person with a droll sense of humor that makes him likable. Judith plays a minor role that helps the audience understand Owen better. HIGHWAY ROBBERY is a delight due to the plausibility of the present and past killings, which in turn allows the reader to further focus on Owen, who deserves future appearances. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: This is a review from Forbes October 2, 2000 issue
Review: October 2, 2000 By Steve Forbes Editor-in-Chief ROAD RAGE Highway Robbery--by John Billheimer (St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95). A wonderful blend of numerous, superbly developed--and often eccentric--characters; wry, politically incorrect humor; surprises and suspense, spiced with some of West Virginia's legendary skulduggery-encrusted politics makes for an always interesting murder mystery. Our California-based hero, Owen Allison, is suddenly called home to West Virginia by his mother. She suspects that a skeleton uncovered by a road construction crew is that of her late husband (and Owen's father), who supposedly drowned in a flood decades ago. Owen's father was that true West Virginia rarity--an honest highway commissioner. He and his scruples didn't sit well with plenty of pols and contractors. The mother's hunch about the body is wrong, but she's dead right about her husband's having been the victim of foul play. As Owen discovers, several people have skeletons they'd like to keep hidden in the closet. This is Billheimer's second mystery. Read it, and you'll be looking for his first--and praying he turns out more like these.
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