Out Now: That Bright Land byTerry Roberts, read by MacLeod Andrews
That Bright Land is a new Southern Gothic thriller from Terry Roberts, winner of the 2012 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction.
In the summer of 1866, Jacob Ballard, a former Union soldier and spy, is dispatched by the War Department in Washington City to infiltrate the isolated North Carolina mountain community where he was born and find a serial killer responsible for the deaths of Union veterans.
Based on true events, That Bright Land is the story of a violent and fragile nation in the wake of the Civil War and a man who must exorcise his own savage demons while tracking down another.
That Bright Land
Written by: Terry Roberts
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Genre: Mystery / Thriller / Historical
Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:06-24-16
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
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About the Author
Terry Roberts’ direct ancestors have lived in the mountains of Western North Carolina since the time of the Revolutionary War. His family farmed in the Big Pine and Anderson sections of Madison County for generations and is also prominent in the Madison County town of Hot Springs, the setting for both A Short Time to Stay Here and That Bright Land. Born and raised near Weaverville, North Carolina, Roberts is the Director of the National Paideia Center and lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
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