Bend In The River

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Every bend hides a story. Every story has a cost. </strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Winter 1964. </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tom Crutchfield arrives in the barren coal fields of western Kentucky searching for the mother who abandoned him at birth twenty-one years ago. A semester shy of a college degree-and the comfortable future waiting in his father's construction firm-Tom is unsettled by a mysterious Christmas card that calls everything he knows into question. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>His search leads him to the gray Ohio River where two hunters have recently gone missing. As Tom digs into the case he uncovers a tangle of secrets-hints of murder corruption and infidelity. Along the way he finds love in a roadside beer shack temptation in the trophy room of a betrayed spouse and menace in a shotgun-wielding landlord who shuffles the grounds in blue slippers. Over it all looms a new boss soaked in whiskey and marked by ink. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Through the lives of these people Tom begins to see the lengths we go to protect the ones we love-and to hide the sins of our past. In telling the story of the missing men he may finally uncover the truth about his own birth...and decide if forgiveness is possible. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fans of the Southern lyricism of Ron Rash's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Caretaker</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> will feel at home here. Or picture Craig Johnson's Sheriff Longmire-not on the Wyoming prairie but in the Ohio River bottoms armed not with a rifle but with a reporter's notebook-and you have </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bend in the River</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p></p>