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Divining Rod opens with a shattering act of violence. Then the story abruptly shifts back in time to the day Simon Bell, a young attorney, returns to his childhood home in Sherwood, Alabama. Simon is haunted by the deaths of his parents, lulled by the soft murmurs of women's voices that float over to him from the nearby golf course. It is on such an afternoon - a hot, unmoving summer day - that he begins an affair with Delia Holladay. Delia is young, beautiful. And married. Their illicit liaison will bring about a final reckoning no one could have anticipated - not Delia or Simon or Delia's…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2010Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 208 pages · 9780802144973
- Other · English · 2010Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 9780802196996
- Other · English · 1998Dutton · 196 pages · 9780525943792
FictionMarried peopleMurderAdulterySuburban lifeFiction, generalAlabama, fictionTeachers, fiction