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In one of these stories, a cop wrestles with a case that transports him to his own past.

Decades-old crimes coming back to haunt the present -- it's hardly a unique theme in detective fiction. Think of Laura Lippman's and George Pelecanos's most recent books or Dennis Lehane's Mystic River or, further back, several of Ross Macdonald's novels dealing with what one critic called "the...
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Reviewed by Art Taylor