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Assumption by Percival Everett

A wild ride to the heart of a baffling mystery, Assumption is a literary thriller like no other from the author of I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Erasure and James.

Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman's murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up to and away from her door. Something is amiss, and even his mother knows it. As other cases pile up, Ogden gives chase, pursuing flimsy leads for even flimsier reasons. His hunt takes him from the seamier side of Denver to a hippie commune as he seeks the puzzling solution. Richard