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When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family―and the family business―together. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident and Dante’s recklessness has placed them all in real danger.
Roman, a financial whiz with a head for numbers and a talent for making his clients rich, has some money to help buy his brother out of trouble. But in his work with wannabe tough guys, he’s forgotten that there are real gangsters out there. As his bargaining chips go up in smoke, Roman realizes that he has only one thing left to offer to save his brother: himself, and his own particular set of skills.
Roman begins his work for the criminals while Neveah tries to uncover the long-ago mystery of what happened to their mother, who disappeared when they were teenagers. But Roman is far less of a pushover than the gangsters realize. He is willing to do anything to save his family. Anything.
Because everything burns.
''A crackling good police procedural....fresh and exhilarating'
STEPHEN KING 'S. A. Cosby's novels always hit the grand slam of
crime fiction; unstoppable momentum, gripping intrigue and deep
character with a hard and telling look at culture and society'
MICHAEL CONNELLY 'Titus Crown is one of the most compelling
characters I've read in a long time.' STEVE CAVANAGH A BLACK
SHERIFF. A SERIAL KILLER. AND A SMALL TOWN READY TO COMBUST. Titus
Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County,
Virginia. In recent decades, Charon has had only two murders. After
years of working as an FBI agent, no one knows better than Titus
that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine,
cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the
surface. But a year to the day after Titus's election, a school
teacher is killed by a former student. The student is then 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 tries to
project 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. 'American crime fiction has found its future and
his name is S.A. Cosby' DENNIS LEHANE 'One of the most important
new voices in crime fiction. I won't read a better book this year.
Incredible.' M. W. CRAVEN 'A powerful crime thriller that pulls no
punches' VASEEM KHAN 'An uncompromising, blistering Southern Gothic
with a compelling, beautifully drawn protagonist in Titus Crown.
Cosby's writing sings.' MASON CROSS
A BLACK FATHER. A WHITE FATHER. TWO MURDERED SONS. A QUEST FOR
VENGEANCE. *SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH* * FINANCIAL TIMES
CRIME BOOKS OF THE YEAR* * BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST 2022*
'Superb...Cuts right to the heart of the most important questions
of our times.' MICHAEL CONNELLY 'The very definition of a
white-knuckle ride' IAN RANKIN Ike Randolph left jail fifteen years
ago, with not so much as a speeding ticket since. But a Black man
with cops at the door knows to be afraid. Ike is devastated to
learn his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white
husband, Derek. Though he never fully accepted his son, Ike is
broken by his death. Derek's father Buddy Lee was as ashamed of
Derek being gay as Derek was of his father's criminal past. But
Buddy Lee - with seedy contacts deep in the underworld - needs to
know who killed his only child. Desperate to do better by them in
death than they did in life, two hardened ex-cons must confront
their own prejudices about their sons - and each other - as they
rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys. A provocative
revenge thriller and an achingly tender story of redemption, this
novel is a ferocious portrait of grief; for those loved and lost,
and for mistakes than can never truly be undone. 'Cosby's talents
for pungent dialogue and Chandler-esque phrase-making were praised
in his previous novel,.. and they're evident again in this
pulsating follow-up' Sunday Times THRILLER OF THE MONTH 'A stellar
performance' Sunday Times Crime Club 'Cosby's prose barrels along
like a pick-up still angry it's not a Ferrari, and his
phrase-making is up there with the great artists of noir' The Times
BEST THRILLERS OF THE MONTH 'It's a rare trick to combine violence
with social commentary, but Cosby pulls it off' Daily Mail 'Raw,
powerful and pacey, Razorblade Tears more than fulfils the promise
of Cosby's superb debut' The Guardian 'This is as close to a
thriller masterpiece as it is possible to get...it is a tale of
grief and redemption, but ends with a heartbreaking poignancy that
brings tears to the eyes' Daily Mail 'Every once in a while a
writer comes along with an incredible voice...add S. A. Cosby to
that list.' STEVE CAVANAGH 'Utterly brilliant....Beautiful,
violent, operatic, relevant, poignant, gripping & important.
This book is a mirror. It shows us our world as it is. Masterful'
WILL DEAN Praise for S. A. Cosby: 'Sensationally good' LEE CHILD 'I
loved BLACKTOP WASTELAND' STEPHEN KING 'Stunning. Can't remember
the last time I read such a powerful crime novel' MARK BILLINGHAM
'S. A. Cosby is a welcome, refreshing new voice in crime
literature.' DENNIS LEHANE
*GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND THRILLERS OF 2020* *LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE
WINNER 2020* 'BLACKTOP WASTELAND may be the book of the year.'
MICHAEL CONNELLY 'Sensationally good' LEE CHILD 'I loved BLACKTOP
WASTELAND' STEPHEN KING 'Stunning. Can't remember the last time I
read such a powerful crime novel' MARK BILLINGHAM "Bug" Montage:
honest mechanic, loving family man. He's no longer the criminal he
was - the sharpest wheelman east of the Mississippi. But when his
respectable life crumbles, a shady associate comes calling with a
one-time job promising a huge payout. Inexorably drawn to the
driver's seat - and haunted by the ghost of his outlaw father - Bug
is yanked back into a savage world of bullets and betrayal. Like
Breaking Bad in a high-speed collision with Drive, this dazzling
novel holds up a cracked mirror to the American Dream - and tells
the story of one man pushed to his limits by poverty, race and a
self-destructive masculinity. 'Every once in a while a writer comes
along with an incredible voice...add S. A. Cosby to that list.'
STEVE CAVANAGH 'An urgent, timely, pitch-perfect jolt of American
noir' DENNIS LEHANE 'A superb character study wrapped up in a
high-octane heist novel' Guardian 'The action sequences are superb,
the dialogue wouldn't shame Elmore Leonard, and Bug's experiences
recall Walter Mosley at his most powerful...fantastic' Sunday Times
'Spectacular....a voice as stark and distinctive as Elmore
Leonard's, and a humanity that touches the soul.' Daily Mail 'A
delicious slice of country gothic wrapped in smart, hard,
contemporary neo noir.' ADRIAN McKINTY 'The book will leave you
breathless, but also desperate to know where Cosby will take us
next.' LAURA LIPPMAN '...S. A. Cosby reinvents the American crime
novel. Blacktop Wasteland thrums and races - it's an intoxicating
thrill of a ride'. WALTER MOSLEY
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby's
debut novel My Darkest Prayer is republished in a new edition, with
a new introduction from the author. "I handle the bodies." Whether
it's working at his cousin's funeral home or tossing around the
local riffraff at his favorite bar, Nathan Waymaker is a man who
knows how to handle the bodies. A former marine and sheriff's
deputy, Nathan has built a reputation in his small Southern town as
a man who can help when all other avenues have been exhausted. When
a beloved local minister is found dead, his parishioners ask Nathan
to make sure the death isn't swept under the rug. What starts out
as an easy payday soon descends into a maze of mayhem filled with
wannabe gangsters, vicious crime lords, porn stars, crooked police
officers, and a particularly treacherous preacher and his
mysterious wife. Nathan must use all his varied skills and some of
his wit to navigate the murky waters of small town corruption even
as dark secrets of his own threaten to come to the surface. 'Every
once in a while a writer comes along with an incredible voice...add
S. A. Cosby to that list.' STEVE CAVANAGH 'S. A. Cosby is a
welcome, refreshing new voice in crime literature.' DENNIS LEHANE
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