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ID: 742712
Title: Holy City
Author: Henry Wise
Narrator: Chris Henry Coffey
Format: Unabridged
Length: 09:09:12
Language: English
Release date: 06-04-24
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Fiction & Literature, General
Summary:
No one innocent. No one free. Nothing sacred.
After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southside Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. Impoverished and abandoned, this remote land of tobacco plantations, razed forests, and boardedup homes seems stuck in the past in a state that is trying to forget its complex history and move on.
Wills efforts to go about his life are wrecked when a mysterious, brutal homicide claims the life of an old friend, Tom Janders, forcing Will to face the true impetus for his return: not to honor his mothers memory, but to pay a debt to a Black friend who, in an act of selfless courage years ago, protected Will and suffered permanent disfigurement for it.
Meanwhile, a man Will knows to be innocent is arrested for Toms murder, and despite Wills pleas, his boss seems all too content to wrap up the case. Will must weigh his personal guilt against his public duty when the local Black community hires Bennico Watts, an unpredictable private detective from Richmond, to help him find the real killer. It would seem an ideal pairingshe has experience, along with plenty of sand, and Will is privy to the details of the casebut it doesnt takelong for either to realize they much prefer to operate alone.
Bennico and Will clash as they each defend their untraditional ways on a wild ride that wends deep into the Snakefoot, an underworld wilderness that for hundreds of years has functioned as a hideout for outcaststhe forgotten and neglected and abusedleaving us enmeshed in the tangled history of a region and its people that leaves no one innocent, no one free, nothing sacred.
Set deep in the rural expanse of southern Virginia, its both a thriller and a dark fairy tale, filled with danger and menace, loss and longed-for redemption.'Megan Abbott
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