3.5
Crimes in Southern Indiana
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Welcome to heartland America circa right about now, when the union jobs and family farms have given way to meth labs, backwoods gunrunners, and bare-knuckle brawling. Frank Bill's southern Indiana is haunted with the deep, abiding sense of place, and his people are men and women pressed to the brink—and beyond.
There is Scoot McCutchen, whose beloved wife falls terminally ill, leaving him with nothing to live for—which doesn't quite explain his brutal actions, or his decision to turn himself in. In the title story, a man who breeds dogs for fighting crosses paths with a Salvadoran gangbanger tasked with taking over the rural drug trade, but who mostly wants to grow old in peace. Gritty yet literary,
shines an unforgiving light on a region of contemporary America that is too often forgotten.
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3.5
“I found my new favorite author!
This collection of stories grab you from page one where you are literally dropped into a drug deal gone wrong. This is southern Indiana noir where violence, substance abuse, domestic violence, and poverty is endemic. Generation trauma is the norm. And if you look close enough, you might see things that remind you of your own background.
Bill’s characters are not here to be likeable or even good. They’re here to survive however they can. And in that, they are undeniably human. The characters in these short stories come to life so quickly with Bill’s prose.
I’ve found a new author to collect every book they’ve ever written and I’m so so glad!!”
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