Diese Autorin erforscht komplexe Beziehungen und moralische Dilemmata, die oft vor der Kulisse der eindringlichen, aber rauen südlichen Landschaft angesiedelt sind. Ihre Prosa wird für ihre poetische Qualität und ihren tiefen Einblick in die menschliche Psyche gefeiert. Durch ihre Charaktere taucht sie in Themen wie Identität, Familie und die Suche nach Zugehörigkeit ein. Ihre Werke finden bei Lesern Anklang, die Tiefe und Authentizität in ihren literarischen Erfahrungen schätzen.
Judah Cannon kämpft ums Überleben, nachdem er einen Konflikt mit seiner tyrannischen Mutter und einem Motorradclub überstanden hat. Gemeinsam mit seiner Geliebten Ramey sieht er sich neuen, gefährlichen Feinden gegenüber, während er versucht, seine Familie aus dem Verbrecherring zu befreien. Special Agent Clive Grant ermittelt in der Sache und bringt die Cannons in ein Netz aus Gewalt und Lügen. Judah steht vor entscheidenden Entscheidungen, die sein Schicksal bestimmen könnten.
The year is 1922. The carnival is Pontilliar's Spectacular Star Light Miraculum, staked out on the Texas-Louisiana border. One blazing summer night, a mysterious stranger steps onto the midway, lights a cigarette and forever changes the world around him. Tattooed snake charmer Ruby has traveled with her father's carnival for most of her life and, jaded though she is, can't help but be drawn to the tall man in the immaculate black suit who conveniently joins the carnival as a chicken-biting geek. Mercurial and charismatic, Daniel charms everyone he encounters, but his manipulation of Ruby turns complicated when it's no longer clear who's holding all the cards. Daniel is full of secrets, but he hadn't counted on Ruby having a few of her own. When one tragedy after another strikes the carnival-and it becomes clear that Daniel is somehow at the center of calamity-Ruby takes it upon herself to discover the mystery of the shadowy man pulling all the strings. Joined by Hayden, a roughneck-turned-mural-painter wrestling demons of his own, Ruby engages Daniel in a dangerous, eye-opening game in which nothing is as it seems and everything is at stake. Steph Post has firmly estblished herself as one of the most original and captivating voices in contemporary fiction, and with Miraculum she has written an unforgettable novel that is part Southern Gothic, part Noir, part Magical Realism, and all Steph Post
The third and final novel in Steph Post's acclaimed Judah Cannon trilogy, in which Judah and his girlfriend Ramey must face a final showdown with maniacal Pentacostal preacher Sister Tulah, which could set them free for a new life, or suck them back into a life of crime and destroy everything they have worked so hard to create.
"Judah Cannon is trying to extricate the Cannon family from the crime ring they are known and feared for when he finds himself in the sights of Everett Weaver, a cold blooded killer and drug runner from Daytona Beach. Meanwhile, ATF Special Agent Clive Grant arrives from Atlanta to investigate a fire at Sister Tulah's church, and becomes obsessed with Tulah's iron grip on Bradford County and determined to take her down. His investigation leads him to Judah's door, and soon the Cannons are caught up in an increasingly tangled web of violence, lies and retribution on both sides of the law."--Publisher's description.