Fateful Mornings

“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

“Everyone should be reading Tom Bouman. His deftly written mysteries are thoughtful and sensitive passages into a rural and disintegrating America where downtowns are crumbling, the drug-trade offers both horror and promise, and the ‘miracle’ of fracking looks more and more like a nightmare. Fateful Mornings is an uncommonly intelligent whodunit, haunted by the presence of an unforgettable villain who slinks through the pages with the lubricious evil of Cape Fear’s Max Cady. With meditations on folk-music, ornithology, and the art of timber-framing, Fateful Mornings is the kind of novel that feels more like a porch-sitting conversation with an old friend. Tom Bouman is my new favorite mystery writer.” - Nickolas Butler, internationally best-selling author of Shotgun Lovesongs, Beneath the Bonfire, and The Heat

“In Fateful Mornings, local cop Henry Farrell casts an eye both dry and weary. What he sees is a people no less troubled than their rust-belt landscape. There are drug addicts and drug dealers, drunks and grifters, but most simply drift, as Farrell says, ‘in a permanent state of befuddlement.’ And yet, 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

“More than a mystery, Fateful Mornings is a portrait of the rusted pocket of Northeastern Pennsylvania that Henry Farrell calls home. 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