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Up until now, 18-year-old Lily Stevens has always been the perfect daughter of a Pentecostal preacher, but her insular Arkansas congregation is scandalized when Lily announces she's pregnant with the baby of Peter Cutchin, a young man in the church. When Peter disappears before they can get married, Lily's life is thrown into even greater turmoil. Everyone in their small town, including Peter's furious mother, thinks the boy has simply run off...

Dry County ist die dunkle Vision amerikanischer Religion und Politik und das Porträt eines Mannes, der bereit ist, alles zu tun, um an der Macht festzuhalten - einschließlich Mord. Richard Weatherford ist ein erfolgreicher Kleinstadtprediger in den Ozarks von Arkansas. Stolzer Ehemann und Vater von fünf Kindern. Er hat hart gearbeitet, um seine treue Herde mit Predigten und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit zu vergrößern. Aber während Weatherford ein Mann...

With his debut novel, Hell on Church Street, Jake Hinkson became known for combining religious fundamentalism with dark crime fiction. In his first story collection, The Deepening Shade, desperate characters grasp for moments of grace: A lesbian couple running a homeless shelter try to save a young woman controlled by a self-proclaimed prophet. A stripper commits a terrible crime to protect her sister from going to jail. A Pentecostal snake-ha...

A portrait of a man willing to do anything to hold on to his power-including murder

A dark vision of American religion and politics, Dry County is a portrait of a man willing to do anything to hold on to his power-including murder.Richard Weatherford is a successful small-town preacher in the Arkansas Ozarks. He's a proud husband and father of five, and has worked hard to grow his loyal flock with strong sermons and smart community outreach. But while Weatherford is a man of influence and power-including a big force in local ...

Geoffrey Webb viene rapinato nel parcheggio di una sperduta stazione di servizio in Oklahoma. E questa situazione gli sta benissimo. Anzi, all'aggressore propone un affare: intascarsi i tremila dollari che ha nel portafoglio in cambio di cinque ore di automobile fino a Little Rock, Arkansas. Ha bisogno di confessarsi. E comincia a raccontare al rapinatore la sua strana, terribile storia. Qualche anno prima ha avuto un'illuminazione: «La religi...

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A noir you'd think was written by James M. Cain. Geoffrey Webb-once a con man, always a con man-has talked himself into a cushy job as a youth minster in a small Baptist church in Arkansas. Unfortunately for him he shows the preacher's underage daughter a little too much attention, and when their relationship is discovered by the corrupt local sheriff, Webb's easy life begins to fall apart.

It's 1947, and Billie Dixon has just talked herself into a new job. As the distribution agent for Hollywood's shoddiest movie studio, she travels to rural Arkansas peddling B-grade Westerns to poor theaters. When she meets Amberly Henshaw, the unhappy wife of a preacher on a crusade against the evils of motion pictures, she senses an immediate attraction. Billie knows it's crazy to get involved with Amberly, but she tells herself it will just ...