Strangler loose in Edinburgh. Also operated in France. Ian, our detective, had parents burned to death in arson fire. He is scarred. Murderer has homosexual undercurrent motive working; detective Ian might be suppressed homosexual as well. Street urchin, Derek, helping as is a lower class copper. Murderer passages with brother suggest murderer was abused by father. Pretty good so far . . . nice descriptions of the Royal Mile and Edinburgh in general.
PUPPY Dysfunctional family has puppy that they need to get rid of. Mom places ad; family is coming over. Description of family. Mom: husband changed from long-haired attractive to stooped old man. Husband: talks constantly of living on a farm and doing what needs to be done, though he never lived on a farm. Conversations together: Sell and move to Arizona, get hooked on phonics for kids, buying a car wash. . . wonderful randomness. Straight-laced suburbanite comes to look at puppy. Seems like she will buy it, even though she is repelled by house. (Dog turds on carpet, filthy.) She is proud of how accepting she is until she looks out window and sees white trash's son tied by harness to a tree. Reader knows he is a menace to himself, darting across I-90, for example. Suburban mother beats hasty retreat, leaving dog to be (probably) drowned by dad who does what has to be done. Suburbanite remembers her own pathetic ch...
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