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Some years ago, the Pyramid Mall was built in the Nyack area and this was my imagined way of stopping it from being built.
Reviewed by Bil Howard for Readers' Favorite
When a local businessman plans to build a mall in the shape of a pyramid on top of Hook Mountain, the sleepy town of Nyack on the Hudson River is apt to lose its quiet charm. Many locals are dead set on destroying the iconic lookout, Spirit Rock, which is such an integral part of the history of Nyak, but their voices will not be heard as bulldozers begin the excavation. However, when the skeleton of a young woman is uncovered, construction comes to a screeching halt, and an investigation into the 170-year-old murder begins. The police chief, Tunis Smith, wants to identify her before the deforestation of his favorite place to view the Hudson River is allowed to continue. As he looks into the matter, a series of lucid dreams take him back to Nyack in 1855 and a romance beyond comprehension. Smitty can’t stop her murder, but what he discovers might prevent the mall from being built.
If you expect to take this murder mystery out of its box and assemble it, you’re in for a big surprise. Howard Reiss was thinking outside the box when he crafted Pyramid on the Hudson. In a quiet manner that reflects the atmosphere of laid-back Nyack, the hero of this story moves along the streets of the small town in both the mid-nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, contrasting how its way of life has changed, yet drawing attention to how greed, honor, loyalty, and love remain the same. The plot is crafted in such a way as to keep you wondering how Smitty will be able to solve a 170-year-old murder, drawing you into his deeper feelings while he moves back and forth between reality and lucid dreams. It will keep you turning pages. I was constantly intrigued every step of the way, whisked away from reality and hungering for more even as the mystery is wrapped up; you will be too. Excellent read, fascinating and intriguing.
