Fateful Mornings – A Henry Farrell Novel: 2 - Softcover

Leisurely but hard-edged.... Officer Farrell, who thinks a lot but speaks so little... proves to be excellent company.--Tom Nolan

You would be hard-pressed to find a finer new series than Tom Bouman's Henry Farrell novels because of the complexity of the plots or the richness of the characters, but what it really comes down to is just damn good writing.--Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire novels, the basis for the Netflix series Longmire

Henry Farrell casts an eye both dry and weary. What he sees is a people no less troubled than their rust-belt landscape: drug addicts and drug dealers, drunks and grifters. In Wild Thyme, vice and virtue seem locked in an epic bar brawl of astonishingly high stakes, where the losers keep their money and the winners keep their souls.--Thomas H. Cook, Edgar Award-winning author of The Chatham School Affair

Fateful Mornings unfolds in a less hectic and more novelistic manner than many police-procedurals, leaving space for meditations on natural history... investigatory digressions and dead ends, lucky chances, and the vicissitudes of the lonely narrator's love-life.... Officer Farrell... proves to be excellent company.

Fateful Mornings is a haunting dissection of the broken heart of America.--Val McDermid

Fateful Mornings is terrific reading, a keeper that you'll want to read at least twice and maybe even more frequently. You'll wish that everything was this good.--Joe Hartlaub

Fateful Mornings is that long sought-after gem, the place where the literary meets the crime novel in beautiful symmetry. Henry Farrell is an existential everyman, as clueless as the rest of us about life's meaning, and his so very human stumbling in search of the elusive truths is one of the many beauties of this fine novel.--William Kent Krueger, New York Times best-selling author of the Cork O'Connor series and Ordinary Grace

Tom Bouman's first book, Dry Bones in the Valley, won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He lives in Pennsylvania.