In the Evil Day
Violence Comes to One Small Town
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Starred review from September 15, 2015
What's immediately striking about author Carey's true-crime book is his storytelling finesse; readers will be sunk, engrossed, in their chairs, learning not just about the primary characters and their motivations but also about the draw of the wilderness, near the Canadian border in New Hampshire, in the early years and into the 1990s. Carey's evocation of murderer Carl Drega slips in here and there, and then Carey describes what Drega's tarot card might look like a man in sunglasses and a claw hammer in his hand, astride the peak of a barn and the spooky, eventually horrific game is on in this peaceable community of a few thousand, among them cabin dwellers, barbers, newspapermen and -women, small-town attorneys, and underpaid and often undertrained police officers. And in 1997, Drega, upset at what he perceived as personal governmental interference, and well armed, methodically assassinated four citizens and wounded four more before being shot down himself. Employing thousands of pages of transcribed interviews, police reports, and media accounts, and spending nearly 13 years re-creating the events, Carey skillfully leads readers up to that day, and past it, creating a gripping portrait of not just the murderer but also an idyllic time, hurriedly erased by shocking circumstances. Carey's tension-filled report of a small town's terror is portrayed with surprising love, bittersweetness, and hope, resulting in a beautifully written and enthralling true-crime tale.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)
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