All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA Today Bestseller Washington Posts The Twelve Best Thrillers of the Year TIMEs 100 Must Read Books of the Year Goodreads Choice Award Nominee USA Todays Best Reviewed Books of the Year BookPage's Best Mystery of the Year Publishers Weeklys Best Books of the Year New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Cover of the New York Times Book Review Barack Obamas Summer Reading List The Financial Timess Best Crime Books of the Year ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Longlist SIBAs 2024 Southern Book Prize Finalist Starred Publishers Weekly Starred Library Journal Starred BookPage Starred Booklist Fresh and exhilarating. . . Cosby keeps his eye on the story and the pedal to the metal. Stephen King, TheNew York Times Book Review A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust. The new novel from New York Times bestselling and Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author S. A. Cosby, "one of the most muscular, distinctive, grab-you-by-both-ears voices in American crime fiction. Washington Post. An atmospheric pressure cooker. People Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, quiet Charon has had only two murders. But after years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface. Then a year to the day after Tituss election, a school teacher is killed by a former student and the student is fatally shot by Tituss deputies. As Titus investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes and a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon. With the killers possible connections to a local church and the towns harrowing history weighing on him, Titus projects confidence about closing the case while concealing a painful secret from his own past. At the same time, he also has to contend with a far-right group that wants to hold a parade in celebration of the towns Confederate history. Charon is Tituss home and his heart. But where faith and violence meet, there will be a reckoning. Powerful and unforgettable, All the Sinners Bleed confirms S. A. Cosby as one of the most muscular, distinctive, grab-you-by-both-ears voices in American crime fiction (The Washington Post).