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Watson excels in creating a tight range of characters, mostly men in small towns who hunt and drink, and whose self-awareness is sometimes lacking. His vision, however bleak, is laced with humor—no small achievement.
“‘So much sordidness,’ agrees Arthur, relapsing into his chair. ‘It quite saps a fellow.’”What fatigues Arthur proves to be of sheer delight for readers. With no disregard for the novel’s considerable literary merit, The Wildes is, above all else, splendidly entertaining.
The fictional killer, an itinerant taxi driver named Paul Biga, is arrested and convicted of committing 12 murders in and around the Barrow State Forest region between 1990 and 1997. The stories in Highway Thirteen flit in and out of that timeframe.