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Hollow Bones Hardcover – August 6, 2024

by Erica Wright (Author)
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An eerie Appalachian town. A fatal fire. Three women whose fates intertwine . . .

Essa Montgomery and her brother Clyde were brought up in New Hope, a serpent-handling church in Vintera, West Virginia, until the shocking deaths of both their parents closed the church down. Now twenty, reclusive Essa lives alone in her childhood home in the shadow of New Hope, which to her horror has been taken over by a new charismatic, unsettling pastor who continues the dangerous practice. So when the church burns down, she's glad - until she learns that two people died in the blaze, and her brother's the prime suspect . . .

Life has made Juliet Usher, who scratches a living as a psychic medium, both assertive and ruthless. With a baby on the way, it's the worst possible time for her partner Clyde to be arrested. She'll do anything to survive and keep him out of prison - no matter what it takes!

Merrit Callahan has always been ambitious. A striving news reporter, she's willing to go the extra mile and break the rules to get the big scoop. And in small-town Vintera, she thinks she might have found the story that will be the making of her career.

Fans of Angie Kim's Miracle Creek and Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs will love this gripping and creepy mystery novel inspired by Shakespeare's Measure for Measure using a contemporary setting filled with shocking twists and turns!

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    Severn House
  4. Publication date
    August 6, 2024
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.5 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1448313945
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1448313945
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The action builds to a thoroughly satisfying and exciting finale. Wright provides it all: clean prose, captivating characters, a gripping mystery, and a wry look at Hollywood glamour and decay ― Publishers Weekly Starred Review of Famous in Cedarville

Wright successfully combines small-town sensibility with the money and glitz of twentieth-century Hollywood in a suspenseful mystery populated with winning characters ― Booklist on Famous in Cedarville

A clever little whodunnit ― The New York Times on Famous in Cedarville

A twisty and engrossing thriller, one of those rare page-turners that you have to force yourself to slow down and savor the lyrical prose and atmospheric scenes . . . It's the kind of book that stays with you long after you've read it ― Daniela Petrova, author of Her Daughter's Mother on Famous in Cedarville

Fascinating and fully developed characters . . . Wright's vividly told tale is studded with wry wit ― Publishers Weekly on The Blue Kingfisher

Tense undercover scenes paired with Stone's struggle to rebuild her life after her stint with the NYPD create a gripping addition to the recent trend in crime fiction of portraying the dangers facing America's immigrants ― Booklist on The Blue Kingfisher

Readers will want to see more ― Publishers Weekly on The Red Chameleon

Aficionados of humorous mysteries like the Stephanie Plum series and the Lucky O'Toole series by Deborah Coonts will want to add this to their reading lists ― Booklist on The Red Chameleon

Wright's debut novel offers a promising start to a hard-boiled series featuring an idiosyncratic female PI whose quirkiness will appeal to fans of Linda Barnes or Karen Kijewski ― Library Journal on The Red Chameleon

[A] fast-paced, quirky debut ― Kirkus Reviews on The Red Chameleon

Creepy, suspenseful, and dark, this gothic thriller will appeal to fans of Guillermo del Toro, Sarah Perry, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia ― Booklist

About the Author

Erica Wright is the author of seven books, including the essay collection Snake and the crime novel Famous in Cedarville. She is a former editorial board member of Alice James Books and was the Poetry Editor at Guernica Magazine for more than a decade. She currently lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with her family.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Severn House; Main edition (August 6, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1448313945
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1448313945
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 9 inches
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Erica Wright's new novel HOLLOW BONES, a contemporary retelling of Shakespeare's MEASURE FOR MEASURE, is out now! Her essay collection SNAKE was released as part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series. Her crime novel FAMOUS IN CEDARVILLE received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and was called "a clever little whodunnit" in The New York Times Book Review. She is the author of three previous novels including THE RED CHAMELEON, which was one of O, The Oprah Magazine's Best Books of Summer 2014. Her poetry collections are INSTRUCTIONS FOR KILLING THE JACKAL and ALL THE BAYOU STORIES END WITH DROWNED. She is a former editorial board member for Alice James Books and currently teaches at Bellevue University. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with her family.

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S McHenry
3.0 out of 5 stars A Mystery with a Religious Twist
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2024
Oh, I just love a good mystery! Take me to the hills of West Virginia and immerse me in a crowd of religious zealots...it's mysterious and creepy!

Essa grew up in the New Hope Church, where her father was a pastor. It's not your run-of-the-mill Christian church, it's a rural church that believes in snake handling or serpent handling as part of their worship service. As teenagers, the lives of Essa and her older brother are rapidly altered, when their parents unexpectedly die, resulting in the church closing down.

Fast forward a few years. Essa continues to live in her childhood home, which is on the same land as the closed New Hope Church. Her brother, Clyde, is in a relationship with a psychic medium, a sharp contrast from his childhood belief system. When a new pastor comes to this little neck of West Virginia and reopens the New Hope Church, life starts to feel unsettled and the snakes reemerge. Then things really start to heat up, when the New Hope Church goes up in flames. For the reader, this is where the mystery takes off. Who burned down the New Hope Church?

Erica Wright does a fabulous job of setting the scene conducive for a spine-chilling mystery, as well as developing some incredibly diverse and complicated characters. They'll keep you guessing, as several of them have a reason to want to burn the church down. I found myself plowing through the pages, invested in solving this crime! As I read the final page, my only wish was that the character, Juliet (the psychic medium and Essa's brother's partner), would have played a more pivotal role. She added such an interesting dynamic, amongst this alternative, religious community.

And now, I fear, I may be dreaming about snakes.
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Mimi
5.0 out of 5 stars A new favorite
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2024
I read a lot of incredible books this year, but didn’t expect this one to be my favorite. More than a murder mystery, although I love those too. A retelling of Measure by Measure set in Appalachia where a duplicitous pastor has the souls of his community in his hands while the women caught in his orbit fight for the lives they deserve. The setting and characters were expertly wrought, and I found myself not wanting to leave Essa and Juliet.
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S. Heilwagen
3.0 out of 5 stars Tale of the Serpent Orphan
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2024
Essa is the serpent orphan; the daughter of a snake-handling pastor who was killed by a snake bite, as was her mother. Raised by her older brother Clyde, they left the flock and she now lives alone in the rectory next to the church, which the charismatic Pastor Micah has taken over. When the church burns down killing two local teenagers, the finger is pointed at Clyde solely on the word of the new pastor. Ambitious TV news reporter Merritt is in the small town to cover the church fire but is determined to dig deeper into the truth of who Pastor Micah really is and further her career. While not exactly what I would call a "fast-paced" story, Hollow Bones is an interesting look into the world of serpent-handling congregations of which I knew little about. Essa's career as an assistant in a wildlife laboratory was fascinating and I would have loved a little more lab time weaved into the story. Pastor Micah is slimier than the snakes and a prime example of why women "choose the bear." His obsession with Essa has the opportunity to come to a dramatic conclusion, but doesn't and that feels like a miss. The storyline with Clyde's pregnant partner Juliet, a psychic with a love of tarot cards, goes a bit wacky to me. I would have been fine with less Juliet time, as she feels almost like a whole other story. The whodunnit twist did come as a surprise, although I think a further understanding of motivation and a few breadcrumbs along the way would have made it a bit less out of left field.
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