UnCovered Review by Connie Blankenbuehler, ACLS Pleasantville Branch
Ms. Brown has again provided the reading public with a pleasurable read!
Blind Tiger takes you back in time to the Prohibition Era with moonshiners, a cowboy, questionable lawmen and civic personalities and, of course, a strong female character to twist the plot together.
Laurel Plummer finds herself relocated to Foley, Texas, and living with a father-in-law who did not know of her existence upon arrival. Together they partner to survive in hard times. A returning war soldier, Thatcher Hutton, in search of his previous cowboy life, comes to town. He immediately encounters Ms. Plummer and becomes the town suspect in a murder. Corrupt lawmen and other local personalities -who are all somehow involved with the flow of moonshine- contribute to a suspenseful, entertaining read.
Altogether, Believing is an elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors.
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Both The City Beautiful and Before We Disappear feature young crooks getting by in big cities at the turn of the 19th century, one haunted by his past and the other trapped by his magic powers.
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Jon McGregor's new novel follows an expedition guide who suffers a stroke in the middle of an Antarctic ice storm and loses the ability to speak — and the people around him at a loss for what to say.
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In The Trees, Everett revisits the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, imagining a series of similar killings in the same small Mississippi town. Mixing horror, humor and insight, it's impossible to put down.
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