Fateful Mornings, Tom Bouman
Fateful Mornings, Tom Bouman
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Fateful Mornings
A Henry Farrell Novel

Author: Tom Bouman

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/27/2017


Synopsis

A woman's chilling disappearance haunts a rural Pennsylvania county in the eagerly awaited new Henry Farrell mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author of Dry Bones in the Valley.

Tom Bouman's Dry Bones in the Valley won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The New York Times hailed it as "beautifully written," and the Washington Post called it a "mesmerizing and often terrifying story."

In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, summer has brought Officer Henry Farrell nothing but trouble. Heroin has arrived with a surge in burglaries and other crime. When local carpenter Kevin O'Keeffe admits that he shot a man and that his girlfriend, Penny, is missing, the search leads the small-town cop to an industrial vice district across state lines that has already ensnared more than one of his neighbors. With the patience of a hunter, Farrell ventures into a world of shadow beyond the fields and forests of home.

About Tom Bouman

Tom Bouman's first Henry Farrell novel, Dry Bones in the Valley, won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He lives in upstate New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jaime on September 16, 2017

I found this book boring and tedious. I love the imagery of the setting (rural Pennsylvania) and the notion that the plot focused on fracking (environmentalist in me). Other than that, I did not like the book at all. The plot was hard to follow and boring. The characters were depressing. I did not l......more

Goodreads review by Kate on July 28, 2017

Fateful Mornings is the first book I’ve read by Tom Bouman, but I’ve had Dry Bones in the Valley on my bookshelves since it came out, just waiting to be read. I’ll definitely be picking it up at some point having read this one. In Fateful Mornings, we meet Officer Henry Farrell, the central character......more

Goodreads review by Kerry on July 26, 2017

I found this book incredibly boring and tedious. It didn't get good until perhaps the last 30 pages. By that time I was only still reading because curiosity as to who did it kept me there but that's about it. Very dull and slow moving book.......more

Goodreads review by Laura on March 13, 2017

The story was segmented, choppy, and lacked flow. It was bogged down with information about the city, counties, and locale. Which could have been overlooked; except, the details provided were dull and often irrelevant to the storyline. Actually, the same can be said about most of the side stories. T......more

Goodreads review by Barb on August 07, 2017

Wanted to like this book: 1) set in rural Pennsylvania; 2) impact of fracking on community; 3) thought 1st novel was readable. However, this book really disappointed. I plodded through it just to see if it got better, (It didn't)......more