
Out the Summerhill Road
A Novel
Jane Roberts Wood(Author)
University of North Texas Press,U.S.
Published on 30. May 2010
Book
Hardback
260 pages
978-1-57441-299-4 (ISBN)
Description
From Jane Roberts Wood comes a quietly riveting novel revealing the banal faces of evil in a small East Texas town. In 1946 a young couple is brutally murdered in Cold Springs. And, now, thirty-four years later, the rumor is that Jackson Morris, who had been the only person of interest in the murders, has come home. Or has he? When the four women of the Tuesday bridge club hear this rumor, their responses range from a reckless excitement to a shaky uneasiness. There's Isabel, compelling and passionate, who foolishly and inexplicably longs to see Jackson, her first love, again while the seemingly innocent Mary Martha prays that the sheriff will put Jackson's head in a noose. Although the eternally optimistic Sarah looks to the law to determine Jackson's fate, the fourth woman, an Irish immigrant and a misfit in Cold Springs, is guided by the spirit world, including a cat, in deciding his guilt or innocence. When a second murder occurs after Jackson's return, Cold Springs reacts with fear and paranoia while the women struggle to protect their friend's reputation and desperately try to find a murderer.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Denton
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57441-299-4 (9781574412994)
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JANE ROBERTS WOOD is the award winning author of the Lucy Richards trilogy: "The Train to Estelline, A Place Called Sweet Shrub, "and" Dance a Little Longer, "as well as "Grace "and "Roseborough, "all published in paperback by UNT Press. Wood is a Fellow of both the National Endowment of the Arts and the National Endowment of the Humanities. She and her husband, J. W. "Dub" Wood, live in the horse country of Argyle, Texas, with their two dogs.