![]() ![]() ![]() True, violent things have a way of happening whenever Ruskin is around: a car-crash, mysterious murders, an ugly fist-fight with a cuckolded husband. Charles is oddly drawn to Ruskin, with ""the feeling that being Ruskin's friend would somehow help to change my life""-which has begun to seem too tame and dreary. But things start changing when Ruskin and Sybil Marsh-a sexy, dynamic, slightly older couple-move in next door. The narrator is youngish engineer Charles Ripley, happily married to pretty Shelly and happily dwelling in a so-so development, Mesa Vista Estates, outside of San Diego. Like Carolyn Slaughter's The Banquet (1984), this short horror novel uses kinkiness and social backgrounds to fill out an old Roald Dahl short-story idea-with middling success. ![]()
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