The Law of Revenge

by Tess Collins

Overview

Alma Bashears escaped her Appalachian roots to forget the memories of a brutal rape. Now, a brilliant attorney, she receives an urgent call from her estranged family-Come back home. Your family needs you. Alma returns to defend her brother against a trumped-up murder charge. Upon discovering the prosecutor is the boy responsible for her rape, this white-trash hollow girl will dispense a little country justice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781937356040
Publisher:	BearCat Press
Publication date:	11/25/2011
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)
Age Range:	16 Years

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Editorial Reviews

This first thriller takes on incest, gang rape and class warfarefor starters. Yet despite the occasional opportune phrase, the protagonist, Alma Mae Bashears, isn't persuasive either as a yuppie lawyer in San Francisco or as Appalachian white trash out for revenge. Having fled Contrary, Ky., after a brutal rape, Alma is going back to protect her younger brother Vernon from her childhood nemesis and settle a few old scores. There is some real feelingAlma's yearning for roots and for the warm assurance of early childhoodbut for the most part the characters are no more than cardboard foils for Alma's fury. (July)

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