The Incredible Winston Browne
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4.6 • 97 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Beloved writer Sean Dietrich—also known as Sean of the South—will warm your heart with this rich and nostalgic tale of a small-town sheriff, a mysterious little girl, and a good-hearted community pulling together to help her.
Folks in Moab live for ice cream socials, baseball, and the local paper’s weekly gossip column. Sheriff Winston Browne has watched over Moab with a generous eye for a decade, and by now he’s used to handling the daily dramas that keep life interesting for Moab’s quirky residents.
But just after Winston receives some terrible, life-altering news, a seemingly mute runaway with no clear origin arrives in Moab. The residents do what they believe is right and take her in—until two suspicious strangers arrive and begin looking for her. Suddenly Winston has a child in desperate need of protection—as well as a secret of his own to keep.
With the help of Moab’s goodhearted townsfolk, the humble and well-meaning Winston Browne still has some heroic things to do. He finds romance, family, and love in unexpected places. He stumbles upon adventure, searches his soul, and grapples with the past. In doing so, he just might discover what a life well-lived truly looks like.
Sometimes ordinary people do the most extraordinary things of all.
Praise for The Incredible Winston Browne:
“Sean Dietrich has written a home run of a novel with The Incredible Winston Browne. Every bit as wonderful as its title implies, it’s the story of Browne—a principled, baseball-loving sheriff—a precocious little girl in need of help, and the community that rallies around them. This warm, witty, tender novel celebrates the power of friendship and family to transform our lives. It left me nostalgic and hopeful, missing my grandfathers, and eager for baseball season to start again. I loved it.” —Ariel Lawhon, New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia
“Make no mistake. [The Incredible Winston Browne] is a classic story, told by an expert storyteller.” —Shawn Smucker, author of Light from Distant Stars
Stand-alone historical novel set in the 1950sIncludes discussion questions for book clubsAlso from Sean Dietrich: Stars of Alabama
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Dietrich (Stars of Alabama) lovingly depicts 1950s small-town life in this excellent outing. Winston Browne is long-serving sheriff overseeing rural Moab, Fla., and a veteran of WWII whose fiancée married another man while he was off at war. Upon returning home, Winston threw himself into his job, but after he receives a terminal cancer diagnosis, he starts to reprioritize. When runaway child Jessie finds her way to Moab, Winston tries to build a relationship with the girl to find out who she is and where she came from. The answers seems to be tied to a religious cult, and as Winston investigates, his newfound energy and perspective on life inspires him to open up to a chance at love, allows him to make peace with his past, and leads to justice for the dangerous cult set on harming Jessie. Dietrich meshes mystery and romance beautifully in this moral tale about one man set on using what is left of his life to enrich the lives of others. Dietrich's fans will love this rip-roaring, dramatic inspirational.
Customer Reviews
Small town, romance, danger, baseball, life and death. What could be better
Sean Dietrich painted a picture of my favorite place on earth — a small rural southern town. A place where everyone knows everyone else and secrets cannot be kept unless you don’t tell them to anyone at all. Dietrich’s writing draws you in, with quirky descriptives and well-painted pictures. And then, strange happenings around a run-away child to really stir things up. I finished this book in record time, avoiding all sorts of things I should have been doing instead of reading. Give yourself a treat with this gem of a book.
Great story
I just started reading books again. This book was very interesting and very good reading. It was very easy to identify and keep up with the characters. I find that there’s nothing good to see on television. So I started reading.
Life-we all have it, and lose it
Knowing what’s going to happen can still hit you hard when it does. We know from early on which way this read will go but the getting there weaves a timeless story. Wonderfully real and relatable characters. A bit slow set up but worth reading every line.