REESE’S LEAP: AN ISLAND MYSTERY By Darcy Scott Turtle Pond Press, 2013 218 pages, $14.95 ISBN 978-1-938883-34-7 Gil Hodges, shameless boozer and world-class Lothario, thinks being stranded on a Maine island with five women is a pretty sweet deal, until he discovers they are all liars and at least one might be a killer. […]
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