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Snakebit: A joyous tale of death, hate, and forbidden love.
Southern Appalachians, 1963
The sheriff says Lucy Cutler stripped off her clothes to go swimming in the Caney River and was attacked by a horde of copperheads. But she was a modest lady, the water where her clothes were found is too swift for swimming, and copperheads aren't water snakes. Deputy sheriff Johnny Lee Cole is investigating but he's distracted by the pure country sweetness of a strange woman who grew up in a snake-handling church and was the last to see Lucy Cutler alive. Meanwhile other women die of multiple snakebites, while armed rednecks demand he stop a bus coming through with freedom riders headed for the deep south—and they'll do it if he won't. Deputy Cole is game, but he can't win 'em all.
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The sheriff says Lucy Cutler stripped off her clothes to go swimming in the Caney River and was attacked by a horde of copperheads. But she was a modest lady, the water where her clothes were found is too swift for swimming, and copperheads aren't water snakes. Deputy sheriff Johnny Lee Cole is investigating but he's distracted by the pure country sweetness of a strange woman who grew up in a snake-handling church and was the last to see Lucy Cutler alive. Meanwhile other women die of multiple snakebites, while armed rednecks demand he stop a bus coming through with freedom riders headed for the deep south—and they'll do it if he won't. Deputy Cole is game, but he can't win 'em all.
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384 pages, Paperback
Published February 24, 2014
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