NHFT virtual book club meeting #36 - All the Sinners Bleed

Following on from the mind-expanding visit to the multiverse in Blake Crouch's excellent ode to the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics, Dark Matter, we are off to southeast Virginia with S.A Cosby's gritty thriller, All the Sinners Bleed.

Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, Charon has had only two murders. After years of working as an FBI agent, no one knows better than Titus that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface.

But a year to the day after Titus's election, a schoolteacher is killed by a former student. The student is then fatally shot by Titus's deputies.

As Titus investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes, and a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon. With the killer's possible connections to a local church and the town's harrowing history weighing on him, Titus tries to project confidence about closing the case while concealing a painful secret from his own past. At the same time, he also has to contend with a far-right group that wants to hold a parade in celebration of the town's Confederate history.

Charon is Titus's home and his heart. But where faith and violence meet, there will be a reckoning.

“One of the most muscular, distinctive, grab-you-by-both-ears voices in American crime fiction” The Washington Post

'A crackling good police procedural....fresh and exhilarating' Stephen King

"To read a book like this is to learn about lives that may be outside of our own—and to discover something(s) about ourselves in the process. This one comes with my highest recommendation." Criminal Element

We'll be meeting on Thursday 27th of June via MS Teams where we will be discussing the novel. You can find the link via the Events Calendar on the Staff Room.

Hope to see you there...