Promised Land

"[A] new master of Southern gothic."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Word is bond-until the past threatens to break it

From the Edgar Award-winning author comes a decisive sequel to Holy City in which a missing person case forces deputy sheriff Will Seems to confront the way history anchors, corrupts, and defines the present

Deep within southside Virginia lies the Snakefoot-a wild swampland that holds secrets, hides truths, and harbors the dead in murky waters that refuse to shine yet somehow ...