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The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne

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Publisher's Synopsis

A wild, blackly funny, brilliantly twisty literary-crime novel, like an unholy coming together of Tana French and the Cohen brothers.

Literary thrillers just don't come any better ― Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Somebody's Fool

Sometimes your ancestors breathe through you. Sometimes, they call for vengeance...

Babs Dionne, doting grandmother and vicious crime matriarch, rules her small town with an iron fist. She controls the flow of drugs into its borders with the help of her loyal lieutenants, girlfriends since they were teenagers, and her eldest daughter, Lori, a former soldier struggling with addiction.

When a drug cartel discovers that its numbers are down in the area, they send a malevolent force, known only as The Man, to investigate. At the same time, Babs's youngest daughter, Sis, has gone missing, which doesn't seem at all like a coincidence. In twenty-four hours, Sis will be found dead, and the whole town will seek shelter from Babs's wrath...

About the Publisher

Atlantic Books

Atlantic Books is an independent British publishing house. It was founded by Toby Mundy in February 2000 and published its first book in May 2001. It has since developed a list that has a world-wide reputation for quality, originality and breadth, and includes fiction, history, politics, memoir and current affairs. It won 'Imprint and Editor of the Year' at the British Books Awards in 2005 and 2009, and was 'Independent Publisher of the Year' in 2009.

Book information

ISBN: 9781805463887
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Pub date:
Edition: Hardback original
DEWEY: 813.6
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Sales rank: 2236
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 474g
Height: 223mm
Width: 141mm
Spine width: 30mm