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SOLVED: Adult Fiction > SOLVED. Southern Gothic murder mystery; main character - the sheriff - is slowly succumbing to blood poisoning. The first corpse turns up in a scarecrow. [s]

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message 1: by Pat (new) - rated it 5 stars
Nov 19, 2015 12:34PM

Pat Padden | 6 comments In this novel, the main character - the sheriff - is slowly succumbing to blood poisoning. The first corpse turns up in a scarecrow. And at the dénouement, there's something about white-painted rocks used to mark the border of someone's yard.


message 2: by Lobstergirl, au gratin (new)
Nov 19, 2015 04:15PM

Lobstergirl | 44924 comments Mod
What year did you read it, around? Author male or female? Paper book, ebook, other? Cover art? Standalone or part of a series? What time period (decade) is it set in?


message 3: by Pat (new) - rated it 5 stars
Nov 20, 2015 07:43AM

Pat Padden | 6 comments Author was male, and I think he only had 2 novels to his credit at the time. Read it about 8 or 9 years ago, and it was a hardcover book. Cover art was a scarecrow, I think. Standalone. And contemporary - I can't pin it down to a decade, but recent. Very character-driven plot.


message 4: by Kris (new)
Nov 22, 2015 07:50AM

Kris | 54993 comments Mod
The Critic by Peter May?


message 5: by Pat (new) - rated it 5 stars
Nov 23, 2015 07:22AM

Pat Padden | 6 comments Kris wrote: "The Critic by Peter May?"

No... but thanks for the suggestion.


message 7: by Lobstergirl, au gratin (new)
Oct 20, 2018 05:31PM

Lobstergirl | 44924 comments Mod
Pat, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

Did you check out Kris's suggestion @6?


message 8: by Lobstergirl, au gratin (new)
Nov 28, 2020 08:51PM

Lobstergirl | 44924 comments Mod
Lobstergirl wrote: "Pat, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

Did you check out Kris's suggestion @6?"

No response in 2 years. Moving to Abandoned.


message 9: by Pat (last edited Jan 03, 2021 03:49PM) (new) - rated it 5 stars
Jan 03, 2021 03:45PM

Pat Padden | 6 comments Sorry, I had stopped following this discussion. Eventually I found the book when the author (David Searcy) wrote another one - a book of essays. Thank you, everyone, for your suggestions!

This was the book (I was wrong about the cover): https://www.amazon.com/Last-Things-Da...


message 10: by Pat (new) - rated it 5 stars
Jan 03, 2021 03:46PM

Pat Padden | 6 comments Lobstergirl wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "Pat, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

Did you check out Kris's suggestion @6?"

No response in 2 years. Moving to Abandoned."


message 11: by Lobstergirl, au gratin (new)
Jan 03, 2021 04:13PM

Lobstergirl | 44924 comments Mod
Oh great, thanks for letting us know.


message 12: by Kris (new)
Jan 03, 2021 04:14PM

Kris | 54993 comments Mod
Great! Glad you found your book, Pat. Here's the Goodreads link - Last Things by David Searcy.


message 13: by Pat (new) - rated it 5 stars
Jan 03, 2021 04:20PM

Pat Padden | 6 comments Thank you, everyone! And BTW - if you like "a thinking person's horror story" - you'd enjoy this.


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