Death Of A Rainmaker
- 311 Seiten
- 11 Lesestunden
A classic murder mystery set in the 1930s Dust Bowl that portrays the era with great beauty, tenderness, and sorrowful authenticity.
Laurie Loewenstein schafft fesselnde Erzählungen, die auf ihren Wurzeln im Mittleren Westen und ihren Erfahrungen als Journalistin basieren. Ihre Schriften befassen sich oft mit Themen, die in der amerikanischen Geschichte und dem ländlichen Leben verwurzelt sind, und scheuen sich nicht, komplexe menschliche Beziehungen zu erforschen. Mit einem scharfen Auge für Details und einem Händchen für Spannung schafft Loewenstein Literatur, die den Leser in die Vergangenheit eintauchen lässt und gleichzeitig zum Nachdenken über die Gegenwart anregt.


A classic murder mystery set in the 1930s Dust Bowl that portrays the era with great beauty, tenderness, and sorrowful authenticity.
"Already suffering the privations of the 1930s Dust Bowl, an Oklahoma town is further devastated when a passenger train derails--flooding its hospital with the dead and maimed. Among the seriously wounded is Etha, wife of Sheriff Temple Jennings. Overwhelmed by worry for her, the sheriff must regain his footing to investigate the derailment, which rapidly develops into a case of sabotage. The following night, a local recluse is murdered. Temple has a hunch that this death is connected to the train wreck. But as he dissects the victim's life with help from the recuperating and resourceful Etha, he discovers a tangle of records that make a number of townsfolk suspects in the murder. Temple's investigations take place against the backdrop of the Great Depression--where bootlegging, petty extortion, courage, and bravado play out in equal measure"-- Provided by publisher