A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust.
Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, Charon has had only two murders. After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface.
Then a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student and the student is fatally shot by Titus’s deputies. Those festering secrets are now out in the open and ready to tear the town apart.
As Titus investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes and a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon. With the killer’s possible connections to a local church and the town’s harrowing history weighing on him, Titus projects confidence about closing the case while concealing a painful secret from his own past. At the same time, he also has to contend with a far-right group that wants to hold a parade in celebration of the town’s Confederate history.
Powerful and unforgettable, All the Sinners Bleed confirms S. A. Cosby as “one of the most muscular, distinctive, grab-you-by-both-ears voices in American crime fiction” (The Washington Post).
My Thoughts
I finally finished this and guess what? I loved every minute of it. Although somehow I took longer than usual with this one, it was definitely worth the read.
In All The Sinners Bleed, we meet sheriff Titus Crown, the recently installed, first African American sheriff of Charon County, a town with a foundation that is steeped in racism.
Titus wanting to make a difference is challenged when a shooting of a beloved teacher and a student rocks Charon County. This shooting, little did he realize was the start of a series of events that would rock Charon Country to the core. Titus also was fighting not only external demons but internal ones as well.
This was a well written story full of action, mystery and drama. A very exciting novel indeed.
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