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The wonder of time travel and the intrigue of a hard-boiled whodunit meet in this work in which attempts to travel back in time to solve an unsolved crime could alter the course of history
228 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 14, 1990
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April 16, 2018
I usually don't have time to read fiction, but this is a fiction book that has cryptic clues about two REAL Penn State murders (or one is officially a vanishing, I guess...). That is why I read it. To get clues RE: Betsy Aardsma's 11/28/1969 Pettee Library (Penn State) murder (the woman killed in this book..."Amanda Zephyr"...is the stand-in for Aardsma...you can even spell Aardsma w/a replacement 'z' from the name "Amanda Zephyr"...) and DA Ray Gricar's 4/15/2005 vanishing from Lewisburg, PA. He supposedly helped the author (consulted) with the book and she wrote her Betsy Aardsma killer's theories in fiction (sci-fi) form. I don't think it worked well. I had no clue what she was alluding to and had to go back and re-read some portions of the book for clarity on what had happened. It took reading over 60 pages for me to understand what the heck was going on and in the end she switched it up a tic...a sorta sunny deus ex-machina. This is a book I will have to think about a bit more before I review it further, but Ray Gricar did vanish on one of the ONLY two dates involved in this tome...April 15th (tax day). 15 years AFTER this book was published. How weird is that? That was the date that "Amanda Zephyr" (fake) was killed on in the book. She was born on 11/28 (1977)...the same date Betsy Aardsma (real) was murdered on in 1969. Cree. Pee!
Time travel elements are in it if you like that sorta thing (1995, 2020 & 2040). The author suspected popular killing suspect Richard C. Haefner was the REAL killer of Betsy Aardsma (just after Thanksgiving in 1969). The author's stand-in for Haefner was a college professor who killed "Amanda" on 4/15/1995 and later faked his own death (as many suspect Ray Gricar of doing). I highly doubt Gricar faked his death. Who lured him to the river? Why so close to a US Penitentiary? It is now 13 years since he last was seen and we still don't know what happened. Someone must have used this long-forgotten book as inspiration for foul play against DA Gricar. The book has a happy ending...it is highly improbable there was one for the still missing Ray Gricar. Too many have missed vital clues to his demise that this little tome just may be trying to tell us.
Time travel elements are in it if you like that sorta thing (1995, 2020 & 2040). The author suspected popular killing suspect Richard C. Haefner was the REAL killer of Betsy Aardsma (just after Thanksgiving in 1969). The author's stand-in for Haefner was a college professor who killed "Amanda" on 4/15/1995 and later faked his own death (as many suspect Ray Gricar of doing). I highly doubt Gricar faked his death. Who lured him to the river? Why so close to a US Penitentiary? It is now 13 years since he last was seen and we still don't know what happened. Someone must have used this long-forgotten book as inspiration for foul play against DA Gricar. The book has a happy ending...it is highly improbable there was one for the still missing Ray Gricar. Too many have missed vital clues to his demise that this little tome just may be trying to tell us.
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