By R. Earle Harris
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Review & Description
America only has three problems: God and sex and death. I know what America's problems are because a friend of mine told me about them. He is a gay -- by no means carefree -- science-fiction writer from Austin, Texas, who is now hiding in the Deep South. He told me America has two big problems: sex and death. I added God, because He is a problem and you can't really lump him into one of the other two. If you are like most people, you prefer to keep sex and death separate. In the end, of course, you can't and they are bound up altogether in this story. Palimpsest is a murder mystery, the pursuit of a serial killer in the City. Murder is death and is sometimes classified as a sin, which brings in Problem Number One again. But Palimpsest is really about sex -- and some of the other things that bind us. If you like police stories as much as I do, I believe you will like this one. But the voyeurs will be disappointed. As my friend would put it, there is very little boinking and no real closeups of anyone's honker. I expect this will be a problem for many readers. But I sympathize with them because, after all, their problem is America's (second) problem. Read more
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