Customer Reviews
PROFUND PAGE-TURNER THAT STAYS WITH YOU!!! - By: Heather Marshall Negahdar, 29 Jan 2007 
"Spring became summer in Ada. The fields in the outlying areas were green. Lilacs & hollyhocks & roses took turns blossoming on the smalll lawns that front most of Ada's houses. They bloomed on the large ranches surrounding the towns, & near the smalll working-class houses & in colored town, which is what the smalll black section is still callled.
Stories about the case in the Ada News stopped in mid-May; but members of the Haraway family callled the police frequently- every day in the early weeks- to see if there was any news."
Dreams of Ada is a true crime story which will have you turning the pages alll night & you will find it very hard to put down. The author Robert Mayer has given us a detailed account of this crime & also about the interrogations & the trials.
The disappearance of Denice Haraway a young married woman working at a convenience store while attending college, sent the entire community of Ada & beyond into a tailspin. No one could find out how Denice just disappeared off her job one night at the convenience store, never to be heard of again. Was she raped & robbed, or was she murdered for any particular reason? And if not that, was she seeing someone else & just wanted out of her marriage to Steve Haraway, deciding to walk off into the twilight with another man & a new life? Whatever the conclusion, the police was not getting anywhere fast, & being pressured, they made their arrests. Tommy Ward & Karl Fontenot were to be the arrested. I will not venture to go into any detail about the inquiries, the testimonies, the trial or the verdict. This is a book that has much food for thought & it stays on your mind, even after you have read these 512 pages. Thank you Mr. Robert Mayer, for a well-written work of non-fiction. It certainly broke my heart.
Reviewed by Heather Marshalll Negahdar (SUGAR-CANE 28/01/07
