WHERE I CAN SEE YOU

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A perfect day for a corpse


WHERE I CAN SEE YOU
By Larry D. Sweazy
255 pp. Seventh Street Books

Reviewed by Eric Petersen

After his reputation was tarnished by a controversial shooting incident in Detroit, police detective Hud Matthews has returned to his hometown of Demmie Lake, a small Midwestern resort town that was popular with tourists and known for its small-town values.

Unable to recover from the recession of 2008, Demmie Lake is now a ghostly shell of its former self. What haunts Hud Matthews the most is the fate of his mother. When he was eight years old, Hud saw his mother get into a car with someone and drive away. She never returned.

Raised by his devoted grandmother Gee, a shopkeeper, Hud still refuses to believe that his mother abandoned him. Now, as he works for police chief Paul Burke, whom he’s known since they were kids, Hud feels himself drawn to his mother’s case like metal to a magnet.

But first, on “the perfect kind of day for someone to find a dead body,” he’s called to a crime scene at the lake, where someone has dumped the corpse of a young woman named Pamela Sizemore, a skinny junkie whose murder was likely drug-related. After finding Pamela’s missing eight-year-old son alive but frightened, Hud determines to bring justice to another little boy who lost his mother.

Hud’s investigation takes a surprising turn when Kaye Sherman, a nurse and the wife of conservation officer Leo Sherman, turns up face-down in a pool of blood in her own home and her husband becomes the prime suspect in her murder. Hud can hardly believe it – he’d always known Leo as a good man, one of the best people in town.

Leo goes on the lam, and Hud discovers that his wife may have been Pamela Sizemore’s drug dealer. When Hud and his deputy finally corner Leo Sherman after a wild boat chase, the man is killed right in front of them, the side of his face blown off by the bullet of an unseen sniper.

With the rest of the town tight-lipped except for a friend of Sherman’s who claims that the winds of a drug war are brewing, Hud now has three brutal murders to investigate with little to go on. But as his superior Paul Burke notes, his heart’s not really in it.

The only case Hud is determined to solve is the fate of his missing mother. Warned repeatedly to let sleeping dogs lie, he won’t let it go. Not after he finds one disturbing clue after another. Not after he discovers a connection to the current killing spree and a conspiracy that goes back decades, forever shattering the image of his picture-postcard perfect hometown and its people.

Nothing will stop Hud Matthews from delivering justice, not even if he has to take the law into his own hands. Not even if it costs him his life. And death is closer than he could ever imagine…

Where I Can See You is Larry D. Sweazy at his darkest and most haunting. His poetic prose weeps with despair in a lyrical narrative that serves this dark morality play perfectly. Highly recommended to mystery fans!


Eric Petersen is an administrator and blogmaster for the Internet Writing Workshop, an international, online writer’s group run out of Penn State University. You can reach him by e-mail at EricPetersen1970@hotmail.com
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