The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne

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'Literary thrillers just don't come any better'
Richard Russo

'Heartfelt, beguiling, gritty and true'
Justin Cronin


Sometimes your ancestors breathe through you. Sometimes, they call for vengeance...

Babs Dionne, doting grandmother and vicious crime matriarch, rules her small town with an iron fist. She controls the flow of drugs into its borders with the help of her loyal lieutenants, girlfriends since they were teenagers, and her eldest daughter, Lori, a former soldier struggling with addiction.

When a drug cartel discovers that its numbers are down in the area, they send a malevolent force, known only as The Man, to investigate. At the same time, Babs's youngest daughter, Sis, has gone missing, which doesn't seem at all like a coincidence. In twenty-four hours, Sis will be found dead, and the whole town will seek shelter from Babs's wrath...


'Darkly funny, shocking, and unblinking... Who would guess that there's another Godfather saga'
C.J. Box, bestselling author of Three-Inch Teeth

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Literary thrillers just don't come any better * Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Somebody's Fool *
Heartfelt, beguiling, gritty, and true * Justin Cronin, bestselling author of The Ferryman *
A furious page-turner that kept me up way past my bedtime * Matthew Quick, bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook *
Reads like a French-Canadian The Godfather... A rare novel of equal appeal to fans of Elizabeth Strout and Dennis Lehane * Michael Koryta, bestselling author of An Honest Man *
An unputdownable story and the perfect ending that leaves you teary and utterly satisfied * Angie Kim, bestselling author of Happiness Falls *
Darkly funny, shocking, and unblinking... Who would guess that there's another Godfather saga * C.J. Box, bestselling author of Three-Inch Teeth *
Ruthless, beautiful, cutthroat, gorgeous, poignant, incendiary, and important... I am in awe * Ivy Pochoda, prize-winning author of Sing Her Down *

Author Bio

Ron Currie is the award-winning author of five novels. He has won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award, the Alex Award, and the Pushcart Prize. His books have been translated into fifteen languages, and his short fiction and nonfiction have received recognition in Best American anthologies. As a screenwriter he worked most recently on the Apple TV+ series Extrapolations and has developed projects with AMC Studios, Amblin Television, and ITV America. He lives in Portland, Maine, and teaches in the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA program.