Days and Nights of Murder and Romance

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Summary: A ROLLICKING STORY THAT KEEPS ONE READING
Review: Set in the Detroit area, Days and Nights of Murder and Romance centers on the suburban Hubbard family of Ray, Dawn, and daughter Debbie. He is fiftyish, a realtor and part-time community college English instructor who dreams of writing the big novel; she, a market researcher and later also a realtor; Debbie, a high school senior with acting talent. The story proceeds in convenient short chapters with relating happy and unhappy memories and experiences in their respective and mutual lives as well as in the lives of other characters, all humanely described amid danger and violence also as in the case of a mysterious serial killer in the background who comes to the forefront to meet death himself. In sum, the story indeed includes the murder and the romance in its title, the latter including several brief sex scenes both sudden and explicit. In addition to these the story presents fantasies and failures and disasters along with cruelty and civility, vindictiveness and retribution, and later considerable wealth, leading to a denouement that is fitting for the events that have transpired while rewarding Dawn, in particular, for her forthrightness and fortitude.