A Land More Kind Than Home

A Land More Kind Than Home
ISBN-10
0062258877
ISBN-13
9780062258878
Category
Large type books
Pages
333
Language
English
Published
2013
Publisher
Harper Collins
Author
Wiley Cash

Description

"One Sunday, nine-year-old Jess Hall watches in horror as his autistic brother is smothered during a healing service in the mountains of North Carolina. The unimaginable violence that follows must be untangled by a local sheriff with his own tragic past." --Publisher description.

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