Blackwood

Paperback Published on: 10/12/2020
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Blackwood
Powerful...
Outside of my love of crime fiction, I am also a fan of American fiction, and more particularly the canon of authors who write within the Southern gothic g... READ MORE
Raven88

Synopsis

The small town of Red Bluff, Mississippi, has seen better days, but now seems stuck in a black-and-white photograph from days gone by. Unknowing, the town and its people are about to come alive again, awakening to nightmares, as ghostly whispers have begun to fill the night from the kudzu-covered valley that sits on the edge of town.
When a vagabond family appears on the outskirts, when twin boys and a woman go missing, disappearing beneath the vines, a man with his own twisted past struggles to untangle the secrets in the midst of the town trauma.
This is a landscape of fear and ghosts, of regret and violence. It is a landscape transformed by the kudzu vines that have enveloped the hills around it, swallowing homes, cars, rivers, and hiding terrible secrets deeper still. Blackwood is the evil in the woods, the wickedness that lurks in all of us.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
  • ISBN: 9780857304063
  • Number of pages: 256
  • Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
  • Languages: English

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Blackwood
A stunning sometimes brutal, dark and Gothic noir
L.P.Hartley wrote “The Past is a foreign country; they do things differently there”. Michael Ferris Smith’s Blackwood is predominantly set in Red Bluff, ru... READ MORE
Mary Picken
Blackwood
Atmospheric, haunting read.
The being the first book I have read by Michael Farris Smith, so I wasn’t sure what his style of writing would be like, but I certainly didn’t have to worr... READ MORE
Jacqueline Sharp