
The Devil Walks at Midnight
A Twenty-Mile Bottom Tale
Joe Edd Morris(Author)
BLACK ROSE WRITING (Publisher)
Published on 16. March 2023
Book
Hardback
318 pages
978-1-68513-252-1 (ISBN)
Description
"Magical. Breathtaking. A true original." -Peggy Webb, USA Today bestselling author of The Language of Silence
From the bestseller author of The Lost Page.
In Twenty Mile Bottom, Mississippi, a grandmother mysteriously disappears. Her 18-year-old grandson, Roy Gene, smells a rat and launches his own investigation. Unbeknownst to him is a domestic terrorist plot masked by a renegade religious cult run by a gypsy fortuneteller and his alcoholic evangelist grandfather. The grandfather's infamous Halloween service, The Devil Walks at Midnight is the emotional lynch pin to a corrupt theology of fear that keeps everyone in line... except Roy Gene's grandmother... and Roy Gene.
Others smell a rat, too. Federal investigator Chase Hightower, probing why Twenty Mile Bottom has over 500 disability cases of paranoid schizophrenia, crosses paths with Roy Gene and the two join forces. As conspiracies unravel and murders are solved, all hell, literally, breaks loose as Twenty Mile Bottom goes up in a cataclysmic explosion and conflagration.
The narrative takes the reader through a rollicking farcical world of hilarity and pathos, and of sin and redemption, with glimpses into the world of disability fraud, domestic terrorism, and unsung disability investigators.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
683 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68513-252-1 (9781685132521)
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Person
Joe Edd Morris is the author of the novels Land Where My Fathers Died, The Last Page and several non-fiction works including Revival of the Gnostic Heresy: Fundamentalism and Ten Things I Wish Jesus Hadn't Said. His short fiction has appeared in a number of literary journals with a nomination for the Pushcart Prize.