Bondurant, Matt

A young American couple--Elly and Fred--win a pub on the southern most tip of Ireland and discover the body of an eccentric villager Elly knows floating in the sea.

A young American couple--Elly and Fred--win a pub on the southern most tip of Ireland and discover the body of an eccentric villager Elly knows floating in the sea.

A fact-based novel in which writer Sherwood Anderson arrives in Franklin County, Virginia, in 1934 in search of a story on the area's moonshiners and becomes caught up in the investigating the link between an attack on restaurant owner Forrest Bondurant that left him with his throat slashed, the arrival at the same hospital where Bondurant is recovering of two additional brutalized victims, and a rumored cache of bootlegging money.

Walter Rothschild, an American Egyptologist with only six days left on his contract for the British Museum where he is working to unlock the secrets of a centuries-old funerary stone, realizes his life and his work are up for grabs after he is seduced and drugged by a young woman who was obviously only using him to get her hands on a precious document.