Unspeakable
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4.3 • 189 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
A drifter working as a ranch hand in East Texas must protect a widow and her young son from the ruthless criminal who is determined to destroy them.
Carl Herbold is a cold-blooded psychopath who has just escaped the penitentiary where he was serving a life sentence. Bent on revenge, he's going back to where he began: Blewer County, Texas.
Born deaf and recently widowed, Anna Corbett fights to keep the ranch that is her son's birthright, unaware that she is at the center of Herbold's horrific scheme -- and that her world of self-imposed isolation is about to explode . . .
When drifter Jack Sawyer arrives at Anna's ranch asking for work, he makes it his mission to protect the innocent woman and her son from Herbold's rage. But Sawyer can't outrun the secrets that stalk him -- or the day of reckoning awaiting them all.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A 20-year-old unsolved murder in a small East Texas town sets the stage for this fast-paced and romantically charged, if stiffly written, thriller, the latest (after Fat Tuesday) from the prolific Brown. Everyone in Blewer, Tex., assumes that the nefarious Herbold brothers, Carl and Cecil, murdered Patsy McCorkle two decades ago, but neither was ever charged with the killing. Carl, the more menacing brother, has spent those decades in an Arkansas prison for an unrelated crime. But now Carl has escaped and Blewer residents fear he might come back to town. Local rancher Delray Corbett has more to fear than most--the Herbolds are his estranged stepsons. So when drifter Jack Sawyer swaggers onto Delray's ranch looking for work, Delray hires him, thinking that Jack's presence will ease his mind regarding the safety of his deaf, widowed daughter-in-law, Anna, and her five-year-old son, David. But Delray doesn't know that Jake has a closer connection to Blewer, and to the Corbetts, than he's letting on. Brown's deftly plotted narrative twists and turns without losing hold of its suspense. Her characters are fully fleshed out, and she pays particular attention to Anna's situation as a deaf woman facing ignorance in a rural community. Some graphic sex and violence and the voices of these east Texan good (and bad) ol' boys animate this harrowing tale of crime, revenge and redemption. Major ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections.
Customer Reviews
A page turner
I love how the author develops each character and the way they all come together at the end. A must read!!! This is the second book that I read by this author. "Mean Streak" was an amazing book!!!
Very touching novel
This book was well written and the love that blossomed between Anna and Jack was very touching. The violent scenes with the Herbold brothers was very graphic, but the sweetness of the rest if the story balanced out those scenes. There was one main character in the book who annoyed the heck out if me, the retired sheriff Ezzy! He wasted 22 years of his life obsessing over an unsolved murder, to the extreme that he said he didn’t partake in his children’s childhood and missed them growing up because he constantly obsessed over solving this one murder. I understand that it would be difficult for a police officer to forget a murder, but how ridiculous and stupid that you’d give up 22 years of your life over it and not take part in your family and children because of it!
Unspeakable
Suspenseful, intriguing characters and believable plot all come together. The communication between the hearing and non- hearing are intuitive and touching. A true page turner to the end.