All of this information makes for a slow burn. Likewise, Frank’s details include the time he told his father he didn’t want to be a lawyer, a meal he had with serial killer Ted Bundy, and what he thinks of the buildings at Harvard. Readers learn about Mo’s family background, the men he works with as a groundskeeper, and the journey that brought him to Rhode Island. Could the predator really be Mo? At over 500 pages, Lebeau’s series opener takes the long route to finding out who the monster is. The media have dubbed whomever is responsible for the recent murders the Pastoral Predator. Mo has befriended a suspicious professor who clearly wants more than to just watch baseball with the young man. When Mo and Frank finally cross paths, it is October 1975. It doesn’t help that he’s been “exposed to the horrors lurking in society’s shadows.” Still, the man gets results. Frank is so committed to his work that his personal life has unraveled. But does he have a dark side? When young women start turning up dead in the area, Mo eventually becomes a suspect. To most, he is “a respectful, affable young man with limited maturity and intellect” who works as a groundskeeper at a college in Rhode Island.
His main passions are baseball and fishing. Ever since Mo suffered a seizure at 11, he has acted differently. Maurice “Mo” Lumen may be 24 years old but he acts much like a preadolescent. A debut novel focuses on a killer in 1970s New England.
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