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ROAD TO NOWHERE
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Posted: 7/22/2008 Views: 272 Impressions: 1805
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Posted: 7/22/2008 Views: 272 Impressions: 1805
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ROAD TO NOWHERE
Paul Robertson
Bethany House Publishers
The gavel banged on the table loudly starting the bi-monthly meeting of the ?Jefferson County North Carolina Board of Supervisors.? Joe Esterhouse has been the chairman of the Board for forty years and ROAD TO NOWHERE by Paul Robertson shows the reader how badly Joe dreads this meeting more than any prior meeting he has attended for two reasons. The first reason is that his long-time friend , Mort Walker, is no longer a member of the board. After his untimely death a strange woman, Eliza Gulotsky (a weird woman as far as Joe is concerned), is finishing his term. The second reason, and an important one, is the letter he needs to present to the board ? one that is going to cause so much trouble.
Joe has received a letter from the North Carolina Department of Transportation regarding a road that may be built from the side of the mountain down through his town of Wardsville. This short letter is about to start a series of events which will leave two people dead, two seriously injured and many of Joe?s friends becoming enemies of him and each other.
Mort Walker, Joe feels, died mysteriously but he has been unable to prove it. Mort was aware of the possibilities of this road. He and Joe had discussed several times the pros and cons of having it actually come about. The longer the bickering continues about the road, the more he believes there was foul play. Not even Joe nor his wife are exempt from the trouble that grows after the reading of the letter. The local newspaper reporter comes alive in his quiet corner of the board room. Normally Luke Goddard had his column for his newspaper written even before the meeting started but this time it was different ? he was alive and writing furiously. There are repercussions as far away as Raleigh, North Carolina.
ROAD TO NOWHERE is a story of several persons whose lives are all intertwined in some way by this road. The overall plot is good but the meetings of the Board of Supervisors begin to grow dreary and long. Sometimes you may feel that ROAD TO NOWHERE is a story that is going nowhere, but if you will stay through, Robertson will surprise you with his ending. I was quite surprised and I felt that I, being an avid mystery reader, could not be as completely wrong as I was in the end.
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