One afternoon in 1922, the bodies of two people were found along a popular "Lover's Lane" in New Brusnwick, New Jersey. Not only had the couple been brutally killed, they had then been deliberately posed, than scattered with love letters. The scandal only deepens when the victims are identified as the reverend of a local church, and one the choir members, both married to other people.
Once again, Geary tackles another unsolved murder from the 20th century, and leaves me wanting more. This wasn't as case I was familiar with, but Geary does a good job of filling in the blanks, as usual. He guides us through the case, from the discovery of the bodies, through unreliable witnesses and tainted evidence, right through to the acquittal of the main suspect. While we never learn the true identity of the killer, Geary leaves us with a lot of food for thought as to what really happened that night.
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