About the book
Set in Jefferson Run, a run-down town in central Virginia, S. A. Cosby's Southern Gothic crime novel follows Roman Carruthers, a financial adviser in Atlanta who comes home after a car crash leaves his father in a coma. His sister, Neveah, is worn out from running the family crematorium, and his younger brother, Dante, owes money to dangerous criminals. Neveah, meanwhile, digs again into the old mystery of their mother, who disappeared when the siblings were teenagers. The Godfather shaped its treatment of loyalty, family and organized crime.
Barack Obama, who counts Cosby among his favorite crime writers, named it one of his favorite books of summer 2025, a story of ambition, family and corruption in a violent, racially charged South.
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Barack Obama (Former USA President)
One of my favorite crime fiction writers delivers in this story of family, ambition and corruption in a racially charged and violent South.
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