Fateful Mornings: 2 (Henry Farrell) - Tapa dura

You would be hard-pressed to find a finer new series than Tom Bouman's Henry Farrell novels because of the complexity of the plots or the richness of the characters, but what it really comes down to is just damn good writing.--Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire novels, the basis for the Netflix series Longmire

A terrific writer. Definitely one to keep an eye on.--Dennis Lehane

Bouman's tender portrait of a widower remaking his life infuses his crime fiction with a level of intimacy that is both rare and winning. I was happy to ride shotgun with Henry Farrell again.--Attica Locke, author of Black Water Rising and The Cutting Season

Henry Farrell casts an eye both dry and weary. What he sees is a people no less troubled than their rust-belt landscape: drug addicts and drug dealers, drunks and grifters. In Wild Thyme, vice and virtue seem locked in an epic bar brawl of astonishingly high stakes, where the losers keep their money and the winners keep their souls.--Thomas H. Cook, Edgar Award-winning author of The Chatham School Affair

Poetic, pitch-perfect sense of place.

Evocative... Appealing to fans of rural noir/grit lit and Julia Keller, Wiley Cash, and John W. Billheimer.

Rich and satisfying... [A] relentless thriller that reads like a literary novel.--Michael Sims

Leisurely but hard-edged... Officer Farrell, who thinks a lot but speaks so little... proves to be excellent company.--Tom Nolan

[A] vivid visit to a depressed region.

What makes this book--all of Bouman's writing--so memorable, beyond the cunning plot and painful portrait of this 'Rust Belt' region, is the emotion invested in each scene....[I]rrestible characters make this book a compelling read.

Tom Bouman’s Dry Bones in the Valley won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The New York Times hailed it as “beautifully written,” and the Washington Post called it a “mesmerizing and often terrifying story.”In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, summer has brought Officer Henry Farrell nothing but trouble. Heroin has arrived with a surge in burglaries and other crime. When local carpenter Kevin O’Keeffe admits that he shot a man and that his girlfriend, Penny, is missing, the search leads the small-town cop to an industrial vice district across state lines that has already ensnared more than one of his neighbors. With the patience of a hunter, Farrell ventures into a world of shadow beyond the fields and forests of home.