{"product_id":"unraveled-texas-red-river-mysteries-6","title":"Unraveled (Texas Red River Mysteries  6)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Not only does Wortham write exceptionally well  but he somehow manages to infuse Unraveled with a Southern gothic feel that would make even William Faulkner proud A hidden gem of a book that reads like Craig Johnsons Longmire mysteries on steroids.\" The Providence Journal Blending the racial topicality of the Sixties crime classic In the Heat of the Night with the coming-of-age poignancy of To Kill a Mockingbird  Unraveled presents a gripping investigation into the extremes of human natureboth at its most repulsive and at its redemptive best. Its 1968; a time of race riots across America  the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis  and polarizing demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In the rural Northeast Texas community of Center Springs  a car lunges through the guard rails on Highway 271s tightest curve and flings its two occupants down the new Lake Lamar Dam. What stuns the towns residents isnt the tragic accident but the identities of the two victims: Mayor Frank Clay  a white man  and Maggie Mayfield  a black woman who worked in his office. Each of them married to other people. What were they doing in Franks car together? Living with his grandparents  Ned and Miss Becky  in a little farmhouse near the Red River  fourteen-year-old Top Parker finds himself caught up in another adult situation. The war escalating between the Clays and the Mayfields is frightening in its intensity. More horrifying is a man calling himself the Wraith  who moves through the region at will  invading homes and watching the Parkers. The Wraith has his own deadly agenda. And it soon becomes clear to Top that  for some reason  he is part of it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985051447349,"sku":"ByrdShop_1464207097","price":31.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781464207099.jpg?v=1770844497","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/unraveled-texas-red-river-mysteries-6","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}