Lay This Body Down: A Gideon Stoltz Mystery Fergus Charles
Lay This Body Down: A Gideon Stoltz Mystery Fergus Charles "Strong, well-drawn characters, rich attention to natural detail, and a haunting narrative make this a series to get excited about." - Paul…
Specifikacia Lay This Body Down: A Gideon Stoltz Mystery Fergus Charles
Lay This Body Down: A Gideon Stoltz Mystery Fergus Charles
"Strong, well-drawn characters, rich attention to natural detail, and a haunting narrative make this a series to get excited about." - Paul Doiron, author of the Mike Bowditch Mystery SeriesLay This Body Down, the third Gideon Stoltz Mystery, takes place in 1837 during one of the most horrific periods in pre-Civil War America, when human beings were considered chattel and both northern and southern states grew rich from slave labor. In this hard-hitting, action-packed novel, Gideon tries to protect a boy who has fled north from a Virginia plantation - and pays dearly for his principles. A Pennsylvania sheriff like Gideon could choose to uphold the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 or defy that racist law at great peril.
Written with the vivid, atmospheric prose that imbues the whole series, the life and times of an early American backwoods town and its hardscrabble