Ex-con Buddy Lee Jenkins is a divorced, good-natured racist, drinking his life away in a trailer with a growing collection of empty beer cans and a suspicious cough. Ike Randolph is an ex-gang member who, some 15 years after his release from prison, has his life back on track - reunited with his wife and running a thriving landscaping business. Lansdale’s Hap and Leonard series, but its composition feels utterly unique, as if the elements of one’s waking life were scrambled in a dream. Cosby’s original voice, action-packed scenes and unflinching examination of relationships earned him praise from a wide array of peers and critics, as well as the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for mystery/thriller.Ĭosby’s drive to expand the chorus of voices representing the South is on full display in his follow-up, “ Razorblade Tears.” The novel’s DNA - a Black man and a white man unite to fight a common foe - may seem familiar to readers of “Blacktop Wasteland” or Joe R. A rubber-burning tale of Black and white criminals uniting to defeat a common foe, the novel was also a deep rumination on fathers and the impact of their absence. Cosby’s “ Blacktop Wasteland” came screaming across the literary landscape, shredding readers’ expectations about Southern life, race and crime. His compelling writing will have readers rooting for his latest unforgettable, flawed hero.If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. VERDICTCosby, the multi-award-winning author of Blacktop Wasteland and Razorblade Tears, has a unique, powerful voice for social justice and racism. First, he has to find the religious, bigoted killer of Black children who is hiding in plain sight in Charon. Now Crown’s small team must find the third killer from the videos, who wore a wolf mask, while also trying to juggle the community’s uneasiness, more murders, and the upcoming march by white men who want to keep their Confederate statue in town. But Steadman and Latrell were only two out of three figures on those clips. Crown follows up, searching cell phones and computers, where videos of young Black people being sexually abused and killed are a sickening sight he’ll never forget.
Before he died, Latrell’s comments were strange. When everything is over, there are two dead men: a beloved teacher, Jeff Steadman, and the shooter, Latrell Macdonald. It begins to feel like less of an honor when there’s a report of an active shooter at the high school.
When he left the FBI under a cloud, Titus Crown returned home to Charon, VA, where he was elected the first Black sheriff in the town’s history.
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