Funeral Train: A Dust Bowl Mystery - Couverture souple

Loewenstein, Laurie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1636140521 ISBN 13 : 9781636140520

Editeur : Akashic Books,U.S., 2022

Synopsis

Already suffering the privations of the 1930s dust bowl, an Oklahoma town is further devastated when a passenger train derails - flooding the hospital with the dead and maimed. Most of the dead are Black; scalded to death in a flimsy segregated car at the front of the train. Among the seriously wounded white passengers is the wife of Sheriff Temple Jennings, Etha. Overwhelmed by worry for her, the sheriff must regain his footing to investigate the derailment, which rapidly develops into a case of sabotage. The following night, a local recluse is brutally strangled near her home along the tracks. The sheriff and his young deputy suspect her death is connected to the derailment. But as they dissect the victim's life with help from the recuperating Etha, they discover a tangle of furtive records that suggest a number of townsfolk had reason to want her dead. Temple's investigations take place against the backdrop of the Great Depression - where bootlegging, petty extortion, courage, and bravado play out in equal measure. Where everyone is scraping by, and women carry the heavy burden of making do while keeping up appearances.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

LAURIE LOEWENSTEIN is the author of the novels Unmentionables and Death of a Rainmaker, the first in the Dust Bowl Mystery series and a finalist for a 2019 Oklahoma Book Award. She teaches at Wilkes University's Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing and is a fifth-generation Midwesterner. Funeral Train: A Dust Bowl Mystery is her latest work.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Akashic Books,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1636140521
• ISBN 13: 9781636140520
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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