by Tom Bouman
—Attica Locke
“Everyone should be reading Tom Bouman.”
—Nickolas Butler
“[A] haunting dissection of the broken heart of America.”
—Val McDermid
“Poetic, pitch-perfect sense of place.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Evocative.”
—Library Journal
ALSO BY TOM BOUMAN
Dry Bones in the Valley
Fateful Mornings
Copyright © 2020 by Tom Bouman
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Bouman, Tom, author.
Title: The bramble and the rose : a Henry Farrell novel / Tom Bouman.
Description: First edition. | New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020]
Identifiers: LCCN 2019031004 | ISBN 9780393249668 (hardcover) |
ISBN 9780393249675 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Suspense fiction. gsafd | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3602.O8923 B73 2020 | DDC 813/.6—dc23
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