Talking to Crayfish

by Ron Detorre

The newspapers asked “Who is the criminal? The Lakeside Lolita or the son of the Mafia don? Was Louis’s hatred of the woman who had mistreated his love for years finally boiling over? Or, as Tina’s prosecutor painted it in 1969: a gullible young boy used by an adoptee discontented and jealous enough of someone else’s family security, and weary enough of abuse to plan and plot a heinous crime over the course of years? Were they criminals or just two kids trying to help each other through a maze of bigotry, abuse, and lawlessness?

406 pages, Hardcover

First published April 15, 2011