Publisher's Synopsis
Praise for Internal Combustion
"The sensitivity and insight, both psychological and deeply personal, that Maynard brings to her exploration of this brutal, seemingly unfathomable murder elevate Internal Combustion to a place far abovethe true crime shelf. Her reporting floors me. Her pacing is seamless,swift, unerring. This book runs like a ′69 Shelby."
—Mary Roach, author of the best–selling Stiff and Spook
"As relentlessly hypnotic as In Cold Blood.?A book that barrels us down a dark stretch of the American Dream, where families fracture, secrets take root, and ′till death do us part′ takes on a whole new meaning. Joyce Maynard′s masterfully honest storytelling isas illuminating as it is fascinating."
—Jason Roberts, author, A Sense of the World
"In an intricate examination, chock–full of Detroit exotica and murder Americana, Maynard gets as close as she can to the two warring sides of a family still clinging to their opposite versions of secrets, accusations, and violence. A tale so chilly, Motor City should hand out car blankets."
—Maria Flook, author, Invisible Eden and Lux
"One of the great evil–Mommie stories of all time. Part murder mystery, part dysfunctional family story, part self–help book, the subtitle could be: how a hatchet murder taught me to love my children and to accept the terms of my divorce. Nowhere have I seen a better expression of Samuel Beckett′s observation that love is a kind of lethal glue."
—Errol Morris, filmmaker, The Fog of War and The Thin Blue Line
