Author: alleneskens
Missouri native Allen Eskens’ “stunning small-town mystery” (New York Times Book Review) is a necessary exploration of family, loyalty, and racial tension in America and “a coming-of-age book to rival some of the best, such as Ordinary Grace” (Library Journal, starred review). In a small Southern town where loyalty to family and to “your people” carries the weight of a sacred oath, defying … people” carries the weight of a sacred oath, defying those unspoken rules can be a deadly proposition. After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills with his widowed mother, high-school freshman Boady Sanden is…
Journalist Joe Talbert investigates the murder of the father he never knew, and must reckon with his own family’s past, in this “brilliant sequel” to the national bestseller The Life We Bury (Publishers Weekly) Joe Talbert, Jr. has never once met his namesake. Now out of college, a cub reporter for the Associated Press in Minneapolis, he stumbles across a story describing the murder of a man … describing the murder of a man named Joseph Talbert in a small town in southern Minnesota. Full of curiosity about whether this man might be his father, Joe is shocked to find…
“A mature and sophisticated cops-and-lawyers story, satisfying in every way” (Lee Child): Detective Max and attorney Boady find themselves on opposite sides of a murder case — and as the truth unravels, both will be pushed to their limits… From a USA Today bestselling author.
College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe’s life is ever the same.Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran–and a convicted … convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and…