Tenderness

Dorothy Garlock

2/25/2000

Wade is a hills man who knows he is not welcome in the small town. His family and the town's leading family had been enemies for years. He loves the Tennessee hills of his home. He sees Jesse treating a woman up in the hills and asks her to check on the ill families there. When she starts caring for the children with scarlet fever, Wade and his helper get her to the different families and communicate with her father in town.

Some man in town is attacking women at night alone in their homes. While he does not physically hurt them, he blindfolds them, ties them up, strips them, then looks, touches, and carresses them. He knows the townspeople's habits. He knows when women will be in a house alone. He sneaks in and out, disgusing his voice. When he is done violating the women, he unties them, rolls them in the blankets and gets out of the house before they overcome their shock and get free.

I could not stay with this book. It had the elements, yet could not hold my continued interest. I finally skipped to the end to tie up the two mysteries. If I had nothing else to read this could keep me entertained. But I have way too many other things to read. Why waste my time?

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