Snowbound by Bill Pronzini Epub
Snowbound is an early Bill Pronzini novel. It was once at first printed in 1974 and it has all of the earmarks of a 1970s mystery-the prose is sharp with a medium-boiled taste, the plot is fast without any tough gimmicks, the characters are evolved with just sufficient backstory to cause them to fascinating, and the period is highest: 313 pages in mass market. It doesn’t harm that you can really feel the heavy brown polyester pants clinging to the characters like a talisman towards the future. Perfect, really.
The protagonists-a small staff of townies-are smartly painted and one, a stranger to town, is downright sympathetic and likable. However the power of the tale rests with the improvement and believability of the villain. He is an unlikable man with a feverish madness that Mr Pronzini develops and complements as the unconventional progresses. He, and the other two outlaws are perfect for the tale, and they help elevateSnowbound from the pedestrian to the gorgeous damn good.
The suspense is expertly greater with a measured % from the idyllic and non violent opening scenes of existence in Hidden Valley to a botched theft in Sacramento to the violent climax. The early scenes in the village are advanced similar to a small the town horror story; a slow build-as much as a known-by the reader-and unavoidable collision with a sinister, almost evil, force.
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