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That Bright Land

By: Terry Roberts
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
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Summary

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.

©2016 Terry Roberts (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Good narration but a meandering story

I enjoyed the narrator, who managed passable voices for several different characters, including women and children,

The story itself has potential, but the romantic interludes are in my opinion an unnecessary and unwelcome diversion, ultimately undermining the main story.

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