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...book jacket and title of The Deep End are blase; unfortunately, the content is not much different. Still, it is a shame that Chris Crutcher's publishers did not spend more on the title and jacket, because they mislead the reader into believing that the book is some excessively corny venue for housewives' entertainment...
...fact, The Deep End possesses a fairly suspenseful plot--it is billed as a "psychological thriller"--and Crutcher makes it believable by drawing upon his experiences as a therapist for abused children. He uses shock value to interest his reader, relying on the same brand of nauseating descriptions as Thomas Harris (The Silence of the Lambs...
...sister. When the play therapy comes close to revealing a name. Corder receives threats to leave the case alone. The plot seems prosaic until the first threat--the crucifixion of Corder's cat on his door--is carried out. The perpetrator of this violence keeps the reader guessing what his next move will...
...Crutcher describes a complete psychological profile of the killer and smoothes over the end of the story but leaves the reader without answering one itching question he posed in the beginning: why was Jerry's sister kidnapped in the first place and by whom...
Those of us in the business of putting words and pictures on paper are frequently reminded of the strong reactions that readers have to the stories we publish. A story in TIME might prompt a reader to fire off a letter to our editors, call a Congressman or, in the case of Paul LaBell, do something astonishing and profound. A New York City print publisher, LaBell makes his living surrounded by images meant to stir the emotions. But that didn't prepare him for photographer Michael Springer's picture of starving Sudanese in our Dec. 5, 1988, issue...