The Devil Walks at Midnight

A Twenty-Mile Bottom Tale

De: Joe Edd Morris

Narrado por: Samuel E. Hoke

From the bestseller author of The Lost Page.

In Twenty Mile Bottom, Mississippi, a grandmother mysteriously disappears. Her 18-year-old grandson, Roy Gene, smells a rat and launches his own investigation. Unbeknownst to him is a domestic terrorist plot masked by a renegade religious cult run by a gypsy fortuneteller and his alcoholic evangelist grandfather. The grandfather's infamous Halloween service, The Devil Walks at Midnight is the emotional lynch pin to a corrupt theology of fear that keeps everyone in line... except Roy Gene's grandmother... and Roy Gene.

Others smell a rat, too. Federal investigator Chase Hightower, probing why Twenty Mile Bottom has over 500 disability cases of paranoid schizophrenia, crosses paths with Roy Gene and the two join forces. As conspiracies unravel and murders are solved, all hell, literally, breaks loose as Twenty Mile Bottom goes up in a cataclysmic explosion and conflagration.

The narrative takes the listener through a rollicking farcical world of hilarity and pathos, and of sin and redemption, with glimpses into the world of disability fraud, domestic terrorism, and unsung disability investigators.

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Reseñas de la Crítica

"Magical. Breathtaking. A true original." –Peggy Webb, USA Today bestselling author of The Language of Silence

Detective from which agency?!

This story's detective comes from an unexpected agency, it's set across more than one generation and in both a location and amid 2 cultures not often seen in such novels. The ending was not altogether unpredictable, but included a minor surprise or 2. Narration/performance was smooth and made the listen pleasant and engaging.

Good listen

I was given this book for free,

This is a good listen and narration is fine as well.

The Devil Walks at Midnight

The Devil Walks at Midnight, it's fast paced, highly entertaining, and gripping. The world building and the character development are good, the storytelling kept me listening.

The mysteries of Twenty Mile Bottom, embedded in the hard drinking, charismatic preacher Excell and the beautiful gypsy fortune teller Sister Delphine, unfold artfully and amusingly through Morris’s formidable prose. So many of the chapters are alternately eloquent and hilarious that the reader encounters The Devil Walks at Midnight as one memorably crazed trip.