Author returns
to Washington
in new work

@ East of the Mountains by
David Guterson, Harcourt
Brace & Company 279

pp, $36.00.

David Guterson scored
big with his first novel,
Snow Falling On Cedars, a
courtroom drama fraught
with racial tension centred
around an island community
in Washington State. The
book sold three million
copies in the U.S. alone and
won the PEN/Faulkner
Award for Fiction. It has
been translated into 20 Jan-
guages, and a film version is
set for release this autumn.

With East of the
Mountains, Guterson moves
forward in time and to the
arid farmiand of Eastern
Washington, unfurling the
life. story of dying doctor
Ben Givens as he journeys
towards his birthplace with
the intention of committing
suicide.

Guterson uses the same
poctic, lyrical language here
as he did in Sow Falling on
Cedars: “After Rachel died,
the killing had become a
substitute life, and he had
taken up again the pastimes
of his childhood — shoot-
ing small birds in canyons
and sa agelands, deceiving
geese from cold-pit blinds,
killing mallards in the bends
of sloughs.”

Though this book lacks
the dramatic tension that so

-enamoured many readers of

mn novel a journey of the

Snow Falling on Cedars,
there is a deeply human
story behind Guterson’s
densely layered descriptions
of place. Ultimately, East of
the Mountains represents a
journey of the mind, as well
as a physical voyage. It is
both a love story and a reaf-
firmation of life, as Ben rec-

olleets his own history and
recognizes his own unique

“role in the universe.

— Katharine Hamer

EH All the Dead Lie Down
by Mary Willis Walker,
Doubleday, New York,
308 pages, $29.95.

For twenty-five years
Moliy Cates has obsessively
sought the truth about her
father’s death. Now old
ghosts are being stirred up,
as new information sends
the investigative reporter off
in search of an uncertain
truth. Linked to these new
facts is a murder plot
involving 20th old enemies
and long time friends.

In her fourth novel, All
the Dead Lie Dewn, Mary
Willis Walker envelopes
Molly Cates in another mys-
tery, As she seeks proof of
her father’s murder the Cow
Lady, a homeless woman is
asking for her heip to pre-
vent a mass murder. Both
women struggle to be
believed and in the end
must relay on cach other.

Walker weaves an intri-
cate plot as her story races
towards it’s exciting conclu-
sion.

— Terry Peters

@ Hush Money by Robert
B. Parker, Putnam
Publishing, 309 pages,
$32.99,

The irrepressible Boston
detective is back again. In
Hush Money Spenser finds
himself with two cases at
once, both as favours and
neither one paying.

First, long time girl-
friend, Susan Silverman asks
Spenser to kelp a woman

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Into these murky waters
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rect Spenser, stepping on
toes and ruffling feathers at
every turn. Parker keeps the
lively banter rolling along as
our detective struggles to
make sense of the two cases.
Of course, there are twists
and turns to the tale and
Spenser follows them all.

Wisecracking his way into
trouble and fighting his way
out,

For the many fans of
Parker’s hero Hust Money
provides an entertaining
escape, and the latest install-
ment in the Spenser series.

— Terry Peters

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