Deep River Blues

When the body of a young girl washes up on the shores of the French Broad River Cord McRae newly elected sheriff of Acre County Tennessee suspects her death might be connected to the Glad Earth Farm a commune just outside the small town of Falston. Guru/leader Levon Gladson and a group of a hundred and twenty-five followers have moved into an old farm that butts up to the Smokies and Cord suspects they may be growing something more profitable than sorghum cane up in the hills. The mysterys complicated by Cords investigation into a second recent murder of an Afghan vet; the growing power of a local hillbilly mafia operated by the wily Thorn Reevers; and Cords own marriage which is teetering on the edge of divorce over past violence and his on-again off-again love affair with liquor. With echoes of WINTERS BONE and the novels of James Lee Burke DEEP RIVER BLUES will be a worthwhile addition to the regional crime thriller genre.