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Henbane is a flyspeck town in the ozarks and i feel like laura mchugh did a good job capturing the small town way of life, complete with distrust of strangers. The welldrawn townspeople and oppressive, dreadsoaked atmosphere sprout from the soil of henbane. Hes definitely on top of the food chain, in his power level and his intensity. The weight of blood by laura mchugh crime fiction, riveting, missouri, shelf. James is available at in several formats for your ereader. Laura mchughs debut novel, the weight of blood, won an international thriller writers award for best first novel, a silver falchion award for best first novel. In the weight of blood, mchugh shows us the disturbing depth of this belief in female expendability as the disappearances of girls from poor, depressed households repeatedly go underinvestigated.
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