When Glendale cop Peter Decker finds a two-year-old playing outside
a housing development at one in the morning, with blood all over
her clothes, he canvasses the neighborhood, can't find anyone who
knows her, but bee stings on the child's body lead him to the Darcy
bee farm - and a quadruple homicide. Dead are little Katie's mom,
Linda; her dad Luke; his sister, Carla; and a lusty stud-biker from
down the road. How did Katie get from the farm to the housing
development? Her other relatives - old Pappy, nutty Granny,
retarded Earl, and semi-sensible Sue Beth - were at a motel 20
miles away. As Decker and his partners probe further, they find
that Linda played around, that all the men she dallied with had
lots of kids, and that she and her husband cost Pappy a fortune at
the fertility clinic. Also: half the clan wanted to sell the farm
to a real-estate developer, and half wanted to hold on. Finally,
Earl confesses, but Decker doesn't buy it, and then the full, awful
story of an obsession finally comes out. The Tobacco Road quality
of the Darcys, the sexual foibles of Decker's orthodox Jewish
girlfriend's family (including attempted rape by her
brother-in-law), and the sexual taunts of Decker's one-legged
Vietnam vet friend Abel (directed at the religious Rina) make this
an uneasy read, though judicious pruning would have helped.
Overlong, somewhat overwrought, and just barely skirting the
cliched. (Kirkus Reviews)
Sergeant Pete Decker is driving through a housing estate one night
when he discovers an abandoned toddler in blood-stained pyjamas. As
Decker and his partner, Marge Dunn, hunt for the child's parents,
the bee-stings they notice all over the child's arm guide them to a
honey farm set in the barren scrubland surrounding Los Angeles.
It's a tough landscape, populated by hard-working people with
little time for city folks, so the two detectives aren't surprised
when there is no welcoming party. Nothing, though, has prepared
them for the incredible stonewalling from the locals, nor for the
grisly sight that greets them in the farmhouse. But Decker and Dunn
are professionals to the core and, delving deeper, find a gruesome
mystery far more lethal than the ordinary hornet's nest...
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