Late one night at the end of a scorching summer, a phone call rouses Sheriff Furman Chambers out of bed. Two men have been shot dead on Highway 9 in front of the Hillside Inn, a one-time boardinghouse that is now just a front for Larthan Tull'apos;s liquor business. When Sheriff Chambers arrives to investigate, witnesses say a man named Mary Jane Hopewell walked into the tavern, dragged two of Tull'apos;s runners into the street, and laid them out with a shotgun. Sheriff Chambers'apos;sinvestigation leads him into the Bell village, where Mary Jane'apos;s family lives a quiet, hardscrabble life of working in the cotton mill. While the weary sheriff digs into the mystery and confronts the county'apos;s underground liquor operation, the whiskey baron himself is looking for vengeance. Mary Jane has gotten in the way of his business, and you don'apos;t do that to Larthan Tull and get away with it. Hailed as a grand new talent" (Bret Lott) and a "significant new voice in Southernfiction" (Ron Rash), Jon Sealy has written a haunting debut novel. With its unforgettable characters and evocative setting, The Whiskey Baron is a gripping drama about family ties and bad choices, about the folly of power and the limitations of the law." | The Whiskey Baron by Jon Sealy, Paperback | Indigo Chapters