**"Gripping." --Emma Donoghue, author of _Room_** **"Dazzling." --Smith Henderson, author of _Fourth of July Creek_** **"Fantastic." --Kevin Powers, author of _Yellow Birds_ and _A Shout in the Ruins_** **"Brilliant." --Ron Rash, author of _Serena_** **From prizewinning author Michael Crumme
The Innocents
โ Scribed by Ace Atkins
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;Penguin Group USA 2016
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 300 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
From New York Times-bestselling Southern crime master Ace Atkins comes a gritty, darkly comic tale of greed, violence, and unexpected redemption.
Quinn Colson didn't owe his home town of Jericho, Mississippi, a damn thing. After serving for more than a decade as a U.S. Army Ranger, he'd returned, been elected sheriff, and tried to make the town and surrounding Tibbehah county a better place. He was rewarded with being voted out of office, and went back to the war zone he'd left.
Now, back in Jericho, trying to fix things with his still-married high school girlfriend and retired Hollywood stuntman father, he's drawn to becoming a lawman again. This time, he accepts a badge from acting Sheriff Lillie Virgil, a foul-mouthed law woman with shades of Calamity Jane. But what they must confront together is something brand-new.
When a former high school cheerleader is found walking a back road completely engulfed in flames, the entire state focuses on the...
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