Population: 485Part portrait of a place, part rescue manual, part rumination of life and death, Population: 485 is a beautiful meditation on the things that matter. Seattle Times Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485) where the local vigilante is a farmers wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in

namely her experience in the art and craft of murder

And whatever this thing is—this menacing force that destroys the inhabitants of the estate—it seems to be after Clare next

legal battles against the Government and a near-death experience

be a paranoid freak

one rainy night

and finally solves the identity of the killer known as "Jack the Ripper

Flora is preparing for the next stage in her life

a singer at the Blue Angel club

where he lived for several weeks under an assumed identity: Michael Finkel

there are winners and losers in society

And he almost is

31 Bond Street is a spellbinding tale of murder