Binding: Hardcover
Description: Edgar Award Finalist Ken Jaworowski's Small Town Sins is a gripping Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down - and - out Pennsylvania town revealing their troubled pasts and the crimes that could cost them their lives. In Locksburg Pennsylvania a former coal and steel town whose best days seem long past five thousand residents have toughed it out and have reasons for both worry and hope as this neglected place teeters between decay and renewal. For some of them their biggest troubles have just arrived. After years of just scraping by three restless souls have their lives upended: Nathan a volunteer fireman who uncovers a secret stash of money in a burning building and takes it; Callie a nurse whose tender patient may not have long to live despite the girl's fundamentalist parents ardent beliefs; and Andy a recovering heroin addict who undertakes a nightmare mission to hunt down and stop a serial predator. Before long Nathan's stolen riches threaten to destroy everyone around him as he tries to cover his haphazard trail of lies. Callie risks her career to grant her young patient a final and likely illegal wish. And Andy's hunger for vigilante justice becomes a fierce obsession that may end in violence. As their stories barrel toward unexpected ends Nathan Callie and Andy struggle to endure or escape. They each face their pasts and gamble on their futures and confront the underside of their rough Rust Belt town. Riveting evocative and unforgettable Small Town Sins is a debut novel that marks the arrival of a major new talent.
Title: Small Town Sins A Novel
Author(s): Jaworowski Ken
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9781250881670
Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/1/2023