People Live Still in Cashtown Corners

By Tony Burgess

A small town Ontario gas station owner finds himself on a killing spree in a “disturbing read” where “nothing . . . is as simple [as] it seems” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).
 
Bob Clark owns the Self Serve in Cashtown Corners. It’s the only business in town. And Bob is the only resident. Truth be told, he’s never been comfortable around other people. But then something very strange happens. He starts to kill them. And murder, Bob soon discovers, is magic.
 
Told from the idiosyncratic perspective of its protagonist, People Live Still in Cashtown Corners is Bob’s account of a tragedy that would appear to be senseless. But as his body count rises, subtle clues—including a true crime-esque photo insert—begin to paint a picture even more disturbing than the one Bob so bluntly describes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Apr 17, 2012
• ISBN: 9781926851907

Reviews for People Live Still in Cashtown Corners

[jen6e6moore · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I'm not entirely sure what the point of this was, unless it was just "here's someone with very little connection to reality and a whole lot of bodies." Not my favorite kind of story. The true-crime-style photo section in the middle did add an interesting layer of creepiness, but that's not enough to make it interesting.

[crazybatcow · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I read this immediately after The Seven Days of Peter Crumb. Both books have a similar "plot" (yes, that is using the word "plot" VERY loosely), but Cashtown is much more "sensible"; the main character is more believable and his actions, while extreme, *could* have happened the way they are described (not so with Crumb).The book starts off with the attitude that murder is just another activity in the day... pump gas, buy groceries, murder someone, watch TV... ho-hum...The tone does change around the midway point - and becomes more chaotic, gory and extreme. It almost has a feel of a true crime story (and the pictures in the middle of the book encourage this conclusion)... which I think makes the story especially disturbing.I guess it could be thought of as a glimpse inside the head of a psychopath, complete with his own reasonings as to why he's psycho. While it is kind of similar to American Psycho, this one is more chaotic, and the crimes more... err.. aggressive and extreme.