Fiction - Southern

Attica Locke--a writer and producer of FOX's Empire--delivers an engrossing, complex, and cinematic thriller about crime and racial justiceLos Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist (Mystery/Thriller)Edgar Award Nominee (Best First Novel)The Orange Prize for Fiction (Shortlist)"A near-perfect balance of trenchant social commentary, rich characterizations, and...

"...a fast-paced, beautifully sophisticated political and family thriller. Very highly recommended." -Readers' Favorite"...a compelling Southern saga that masterfully weaves together themes of power, family legacy, and the pursuit of redemption.... a must-read for fans of Southern Gothic and intricate legal dramas." -Seattle Book Review"Attaway's...

On Kentucky's Blood River, a Sheriff's Deputy investigates the death of her ex-fiance, whose brutal occultist murder strongly resembles a similar murder decades ago, for readers of Tana French, Gillian Flynn, Megan Abbott, and fans of True Detective Deputy Sheriff Alicia Moore is thrust...

Freshly unemployed in Kentucky, Winston Alcorn hauls his wife and two young sons deep into Tennessee, not in pursuit of a job, but of his rightful historic destiny.Thus begins a generational saga of mendacious transformations: Winston first becomes the owner of the mill where...

Blue Christmas Bones is the next Christmas mystery in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as "Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends can't help falling in love with Christmas this...

In 1994, the real Mid-South Ice Storm strikes the fictitious town of Bodock in Claygardner County, Mississippi. In the wake of the storm, what is left unbroken, and what broken things can be rebuilt? Hailed by Maurice Carlos Ruffin as "leaving no feeling untouched,"...

Every misfit has a story. This one has wings.From internationally renowned author Mark Mustian comes a novel where historical Southern Gothic meets the supernatural, in a story like no other.In the Jim Crow South, a baby is born with strange, wing-like appendages. The townsfolk...

Every misfit has a story. This one has wings.From internationally renowned author Mark Mustian comes a novel where historical Southern Gothic meets the supernatural, in a story like no other.In the Jim Crow South, a baby is born with strange, wing-like appendages. The townsfolk...

". . . more than a great read; it is a source of hope." -John Sexton, New York Times bestselling author of Baseball as a Road to God and president emeritus of New York University". . . a dynamic Southern story that teaches hard...

The troubles of two desperate families--one white, one Mexican American--converge in the ruthless underworld of an Arkansas chicken processing plant in this new thriller from the award-winning author of Don't Know Tough. Gabriela Menchaca and Edwin Saucedo are hardworking, undocumented employees at the Detmer...

"A gorgeous, brutal writer."--Richard Price, New York Times bestselling author of Lush Life and Clockers In Burning Bright, Pen/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, Ron Rash, captures the eerie beauty and stark violence of Appalachia through the lives of unforgettable...

First published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane is an innovative literary work--part drama, part poetry, part fiction--powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer's impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of Southern rural and urban life are permeated by visions of smoke, sugarcane,...

"Martin understands the power of story and he uses it to alter the souls and lives of both his characters and his readers . . ." --Patti Callahan Henry"Colorful, memorable characters; Southern regional flavor that's drop-dead accurate; and lyrical, intelligent writing make Chasing Fireflies...

The newest installment of the New York Times bestselling Peachtree Bluff series follows three generations of Murphy women as they come together to face a hurricane that threatens their hometown--and the holiday season--in this "book equivalent of a warm and fuzzy pair of socks"...

In his New York Times bestselling debut novel, Silas House introduced himself as an important voice for Appalachia, and indeed, for the entire rural South. In Clay's Quilt, now a touchstone for his many fans, House takes us to Free Creek, Kentucky, where a...

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction An instant, international bestseller, Charles Frazier's debut novel of love and peril at the end of the Civil War was a publishing sensation, the inspiration for an Oscar-nominated blockbuster starring Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, and...

The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around--fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson--a bare three weeks after...

A transplant from Vienna to Malibu who is driven by her urge to observe and depict those around her, Renate is, as one of her friends describes her, "the freest woman I know." Living in Malibu, working at the Paradise Inn restaurant, she encounters...

This "story of love, healing, and second chances " (Emily Henry) from an award-winning author follows a down on his luck country musician who, in the throes of grief after a shocking loss, moves back home and rekindles a relationship with his high school...

Meet Charley Hull, erstwhile newspaper reporter, the latest casualty of a dying industry, and the voice of David Wesley Williams's most personal and poignant novel yet. Come Again No More is an elegy with heart and gallows humor, told in Charley's lyrical and oft-profane...