Trail of Hearts Blood Wherever We Go: A Novel

Trail of Hearts Blood Wherever We Go: A Novel by Olmstead, Robert. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780805058437.

Eddie Ryan, haiku poet, Vietnam veteran, and town mortician of Inverawe, New Hampshire, sps his days slipping hand-written poems into the pockets of the departed, keeping lists of bizarre local deaths, and protecting his wife and children from his own fear and anxiety. Then, one snowy Christmas eve, a gypsy logger named Cody steers his truck onto Ryans front lawn--with the accidentally bisected corpse of his partner strapped to his plow. Cody, garrulous and grieving, wins Eddies sympathy and a place to stay. Soon, Eddie and Cody find themselves sping time together fishing, hunting, drinking, and unraveling the secrets of their Inverawe neighbors, including the most troubling mystery of all--who is stealing the hearts from Eddies corpses and why. A Trail of Hearts Blood Wherever We Go is vintage Olmstead: lyrical, heady, and full of hard-won wisdom.