The Listener by Robert McCammon
Robert McCammon’s The Listener (2018), a finalist for this year’s Locus Award for Best Horror Novel, takes us to New Orleans during the Great Depression. There we meet:
- Pearly, a good-looking huckster selling over-priced fakely-engraved Bibles to poor and grieving widows
- Ginger LaFrance, a sexy and completely unscrupulous grifter who is tired of her current partner in crime and ready to choose a new one
- Donny, Ginger’s violent and crazy nephew
- Curtis Mayhew,
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