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03642aam a2200445 i 4500 001 95374086223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240604012727 008 240202s2024 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2024004858 020 $a 0802162916 020 $a 9780802162915 035 $a (OCoLC)1420634692 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d JCX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Wise, Henry, $d 1982- $e author. 245 10 $a Holy City / $c Henry Wise. 250 $a First edition. 250 $a First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Atlantic Monthly Press, $c 2024. 300 $a 344 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "No one innocent. No one free. Nothing sacred. After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. Impoverished and abandoned, this remote land of tobacco plantations, razed forests, and boarded-up homes seems stuck in the past in a state that is trying to forget its complex history and move on. Will's efforts to go about his life are wrecked when a mysterious, brutal homicide claims the life of an old friend, Tom Janders, forcing Will to face the true impetus for his return: not to honor his mother's memory, but to pay a debt to a Black friend who, in an act of selfless courage years ago, protected Will and suffered permanent disfigurement for it. Meanwhile, a man Will knows to be innocent is arrested for Tom's murder, and despite Will's pleas, his boss seems all too content wrap up the case and move on. Will must weigh his personal guilt against his public duty when the local Black community hires Bennico Watts, an unpredictable private detective from Richmond, to help him find the real killer. It would seem an ideal pairing-she has experience, along with plenty of sand, and Will is privy to the details of the case-but it doesn't take long for either to realize they much prefer to operate alone. Bennico and Will clash as they each defend their untraditional ways on a wild ride that wends deep into the Snakefoot, an underworld wilderness that for hundreds of years has functioned as a hideout for outcasts-the forgotten and neglected and abused-leaving us enmeshed in the tangled history of a region and its people that leaves no one innocent, no one free, nothing sacred"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Murder $x Investigation $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Police corruption $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sheriffs $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women detectives $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Friendship $v Fiction. 650 6 $a Meurtre $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 $x EnqueÌtes $0 (CaQQLa)201-0131276 $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 650 6 $a Corruption policieÌre $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 650 6 $a SheÌrifs $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 650 6 $a Inspectrices de police $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 650 6 $a AmitieÌ $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Romans. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000475 776 08 $i Online version: $a Wise, Henry, 1982- $t Holy city. $b First edition $d New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024 $z 9780802162922 $w (DLC) 2024004859 941 $a 1 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20240604014538.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=95374086223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search