The Bramble and the Rose
A Henry Farrell Novel
by Tom Bouman
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Pub Date Mar 10 2020 | Archive Date Feb 29 2020
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Description
New in the Henry Farrell mystery series.
Tom Bouman secures his reputation as a master of rural crime fiction in his “fast-paced mystery series” (New York Magazine).
A headless stranger is found in the woods of Wild Thyme, a small town in the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania. All signs point to a man-killing bear, and Officer Henry Farrell would just as soon leave this hunt to the Game Commission. But doubts arise when he discovers the victim was a retired investigator. What drew the investigator to sleepy Wild Thyme? Before Henry can find answers, his own nephew disappears into the hills. Then an old flame dies under suspicious circumstances, leaving Henry as the prime suspect.
Torn between protecting his family and clearing his name, Henry fights to protect the most he’s ever had to lose.
“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
About the Author: Tom Bouman's first book, Dry Bones in the Valley, won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He lives in Pennsylvania.
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780393249668 |
| PRICE | $25.95 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 511520
Set in rural Pennsylvania, the Henry Farrell series continues to keep you on the edge of your seat and watching his character evolve, both in his professional and his personal life. All of Bouman’s characters are people of action—a great deal of the pleasure of reading this book comes from trying to determine what is going on internally with each character’s thoughts and emotions, while the action continues—hiding, tracking, hunting. Thoroughly enjoying watching Henry and the rest of the characters evolve.
Clinton G, Reviewer
This novel is a slow burn despite the presence of a headless dead man in the early pages. Set in Wild Thyme, a rural town in Pennsylvania, the first-person narrator, Officer Henry Farrell, takes the reader on a journey that starts out as a simmer and ends in a boil. The aforementioned dead man is at first presumed to have been killed by a wild bear, but once his head is discovered high up in the hollow of a tree, it becomes clear that foul play is involved. The rest of the story is a race to determine who the dead man is, who killed him, and why. The story branches off in an equally compelling direction when an old-flame of Officer Farrell's ends up dead. Prime suspect: him. This is elegant writing, labyrinthine and interconnected plots, and characters the reader will hear and feel. In other words, the best kind of crime fiction. Highly recommended.
Micky M, Reviewer
A corpse found in the woods is initially blamed on a bear until it becomes clear that this decapitated body belongs to a murder victim. Officer Henry Farrell is left to figure this out while also investigating the disappearance of his nephew and fending off the suspicions of half the town that the himself is a criminal. I had not read previous books in the series, but I had no trouble treating this as a standalone novel, especially because there was lots of deep-woods atmospheric detail about rural mountain life that pulled me in. The book is well-written, and there is plenty of conflict between Farrell and it seems like just about everybody else. The pace picks up as the story progresses. The stakes are high for Farrell, and the element of personal risk as he investigates makes the action compelling.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for a digital advance review copy.
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