Book description
Goldilocks is vintage Coburn, the Coburn of Sweetheart,
The Babysitter, and Love Nest. This is a story of a
New England town where all the deals have been quietly cut, the cops
have traded their souls to crime bosses, and the crime boss of crime
bossesÂ-a beautiful woman from the wrong side of the tracksÂ-has
married up, into the WASPs, and her name decorates ever corner and
library in town. And into this quiet swamp with its smooth surface
drops GoldilocksÂ-tall and blond, with exquisite blue eyes, the new
boy in town, and so vicious he makes the rest of them know that life
before Goldilocks was like a fairy tale.
Small wonder The New York Times crime book critic Newgate
Callendar writes, â Natural storytellers are not too common but Mr.
Coburn is one.â An angry yet still sexy widow becomes the prey of
Vietnam vet Goldilocks, but he, too, gets caught in the web of
evildoing and gets his just deserts, though not till the town is
turned end to end. No questionÂ-Coburn can write up a storm.
