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All the Sinners Bleed

By S. A. Cosby
All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby digital book - Fable

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • USA Today Bestseller • Washington Post’s The Twelve Best Thrillers of the Year • TIME’s 100 Must Read Books of the Year • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee • USA Today’s Best Reviewed Books of the Year • BookPage's Best Mystery of the Year • Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year • New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • Cover of the New York Times Book Review • Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List • The Financial Times’s Best Crime Books of the Year • ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Longlist • SIBA’s 2024 Southern Book Prize Finalist • Starred Publishers Weekly • Starred Library Journal • Starred BookPage • Starred Booklist
“Fresh and exhilarating. . . Cosby keeps his eye on the story and the pedal to the metal.” —Stephen King, The
New York Times Book Review

A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust.

The new novel from New York Times bestselling and Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author S. A. Cosby, "one of the most muscular, distinctive, grab-you-by-both-ears voices in American crime fiction.” —Washington Post.

“An atmospheric pressure cooker.” —People

Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, quiet Charon has had only two murders. But after years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface.

Then a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student and the student is fatally shot by Titus’s deputies. As Titus investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes and a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon.

With the killer’s possible connections to a local church and the town’s harrowing history weighing on him, Titus projects confidence about closing the case while concealing a painful secret from his own past. At the same time, he also has to contend with a far-right group that wants to hold a parade in celebration of the town’s Confederate history.

Charon is Titus’s home and his heart. But where faith and violence meet, there will be a reckoning.

Powerful and unforgettable, All the Sinners Bleed confirms S. A. Cosby as “one of the most muscular, distinctive, grab-you-by-both-ears voices in American crime fiction” (The Washington Post).

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Thumbs Up“This is my first book by this author. I enjoyed it. Normally I can guess what is possibly happening and with this one I was very wrong until the character of who actually did it was more developed prior to finding out. Definitely has disturbing racial scenarios which was hard to read.”
Anxious Face with sweat“A couple of nitpicks keep this from a 5 star rating. I noticed some repetitive phrases and actions in the writing a handful of times, like Titus putting on his hat or glasses and that action being repeated in a single scene, or an action being written in one paragraph and then reiterated in the next — things like that. Enough to catch my eye but not a huge deal, and otherwise I enjoyed the prose and noted quite a few new words added to my vocabulary. I would also say that the messaging certainly could not be described as subtle, and I can see people finding an issue with this, but I think the themes are incredibly prescient and important to reiterate now more than ever. Another nitpick is the ex girlfriend Kellie being brought into the narrative, I personally didn’t find it to be very relevant or useful other than some brief character development/explanation for our protagonist; otherwise it just felt a bit like drama for the sake of drama. And the lack of consideration for Darlene was also an issue for me — I understand that our main character is very flawed and that’s all well and good, but it seemed a bit out of character that after being told his family is in danger, he doesn’t even think to check on her or protect her. Idk, it just stood out to me as an odd choice and a bit of a plot convenience. On a story and plot level, great pacing, twisty, unpredictable, yet it felt like the embodiment of a truly great crime thriller story. This is an easy recommendation for anyone in that mood.”

About S. A. Cosby

S. A. Cosby is an Anthony Award-winning writer from Southeastern Virginia. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was a New York Times Notable Book, and was named a best book of the year by NPR, The Guardian, and Library Journal, among others. When not writing, he is an avid hiker and chess player.

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