A Scenic Hills Summer by Shannon Yarbrough

I have fond grade school memories of spending the summer in a porch swing for hours while reading Stephen King novels. I always liked to read back when I was growing up. For those who do pursue it as a diversion, there comes a time in our lives when we read something that touches our heart and spirit in a new abstruse way and we never forget. We all have a book that’s had some profound effect on us at some point in our lives, more than likely from our childhood when someone was reading it to us, especially those who don’t take up reading as a hobby later in life. But I can recall the very first time I read anything from a classic Southern writer. I cannot tell you what book I was reading this time last year, or even the year before that, at least not without consulting my account on first or searching my own blog or to see if I wrote a review of it. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. Swimming pools, back yard barbecues, children riding bikes along neighborhood streets, Scenic Hills is a place where people go to escape the fast and dangerous pace of city life.How Four Southern Writers Changed My Life and My Writing When she teams up with a rookie hustler, the trail leads them to a quiet suburb outside of St. From seedy strip joints to private upscale men’s clubs, there’s no part of the city where Colette won’t go while tracking the killer.Ĭolette relies on the unheard, and often ignored, voices of the city to lead her one step closer to solving the case. Having escaped the clutches of a small town years ago to become her true self, Colette yearns to tell the stories of minorities and under-represented people just like her. She’s also an award-winning investigative journalist for the New York City Tribune. She’s intelligent, provocative, and a proud trans woman. Unable to resist putting herself in front of a story as it unfolds, Colette Birzhan races to the Midwest to report on the case.

The police have been slow to respond, and a local reporter suspects a serial killer might be stalking the city’s streets. Louis LGBTQIA community grows restless while searching for a missing bartender. When the bodies of three male sex workers show up on the banks of the Mississippi River, the St. Connecting the RIGHT readers with the RIGHT books

A Scenic Hills Summer by Shannon Yarbrough