Liar's Bench

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<div><p><b>In this coming-of-age novel, a white, small-town Kentucky teen uncovers dark secrets while investigating her mothers suspicious death in 1972.</b></p><p>In 1972, on Mudas Summerss seventeenth birthday, her beloved Mama, Ella, is found hanging from the rafters of their home. Most people in Peckinpaw, Kentucky, assume that Ellas no-good husband did the deed. Others think Ella grew tired of his abuse and did it herself. Muddy is determined to find out for sure either way, especially once she finds strange papers hidden amongst her mamas possessions.<br><br> But Peckinpaw keeps its secrets buried deep. Muddys almost-more-than-friend, Bobby Marshall, knows that better than most. Though he passes for white, one of his ancestors was Frannie Crow, a slave hanged a century ago on nearby Hark Hill Plantation. Adorning the town square is a seat built from Frannies gallows. A tribute, a relicand a cautionits known as Liars Bench. Now, the answers Muddy seeks soon lead back to Hark Hill, to hatred and corruption that have echoed through the yearsand lies she must be brave enough to confront at last.</p><p><b>Glorious <i>Liars Bench</i> succeeds on many levels. Much of any readers delight will be rooted in savoring the sounds, smells, tastes, and fragrances that enhance her captivating vision of a typical Southern small town during two linked periods of its history.<i>Southern Literary Review</i></b></p><p><b>This has southern small-town charm includes recipes and discussion questions and may appeal to those who like Rebecca Wells or Jennifer Chiaverini.<i>Booklist</i></b></p><b>A satisfying mystery with thought-provoking historical elements, written in a sassy Southern voice.<i>Historical Novels Review</i></b></div>

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