The Bramble and the Rose
By (Author) Tom Bouman
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
2nd April 2020
2nd April 2020
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Thriller / suspense fiction
Crime and mystery: police procedural
Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
813.6
Paperback
208
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 12mm
169g
When Henry Farrell took a job policing Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, he was recently widowed and still trying to find his feet. Wild Thyme was going through its own changes, too, with fracking threatening the land, and the drug trade threatening its people. His first big cases put Officer Farrell face to face with Wild Thyme's encroaching demons. Now, he's got the lay of the land and he's newly married to a local girl.
Then a body - headless and half eaten by a bear - is discovered in the woods. With the help of a local biologist, Henry tracks the bear, hoping to catch him before any more lives are lost, but when his nephew disappears into the same woods they realise they may be facing a far bigger and more sinister threat.
Tom Bouman is the author of Fateful Mornings and Dry Bones in the Valley, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He lives in upstate New York.