Fateful Mornings: A Henry Farrell Novel (The Henry Farrell Series)
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3.6 • 20 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
“A terrific writer. Definitely one to keep an eye on.”—Dennis Lehane
In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, summer has brought Officer Henry Farrell nothing but trouble. Heroin has arrived with a surge in crime. When local carpenter Kevin O’Keeffe admits that he shot a man and that his girlfriend, Penny, is missing, the search leads the small-town cop to an industrial vice district across state lines that has already ensnared more than one of his neighbors. With the patience of a hunter, Farrell ventures into a world of shadow beyond the fields and forests of home.
Fateful Mornings is the second book in the Henry Farrell series. Tom Bouman's Officer Farrell returns in The Bramble and the Rose.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Officer Henry Farrell, the affable lone lawman of rural Wild Thyme Township, Pa., has a flair for stirring up trouble, as shown in Edgar-winner Bouman's atmospheric sequel to 2014's Dry Bones in the Valley. When waiflike heroin addict Penny Pellings disappears near Maiden's Grove Lake, Henry's gut tells him that the most obvious suspect Penny's alcoholic partner Kevin O'Keeffe didn't abduct her. Soon after drug dealer Charles Michael Heffernan's corpse surfaces in the Susquehanna River, undercover sleuthing in nearby Binghamton, N.Y., nearly lands Henry behind bars himself, and a car crash springs Heffernan's kidnapped companion, Vicki Jelinski, from the vehicle's trunk. As Henry continues to push for information from a plethora of local dirtbags at increasing personal risk, life continues to unspool for the young widower in this scenic but economically depressed patch: playing his fiddle with friends, hunting, moonlighting construction, occasionally hooking up. With time, too, answers gradually emerge. But they prove less compelling than the novel's poetic, pitch-perfect sense of place.
Customer Reviews
Good writing, boring story
I regretted buying this book. I slogged through it because u paid for it but the characters and plot held no interest. The pretty enough...