"Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the FedEx man, picking fights with thousand-pound livestock and rolling in donkey manure and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's house. Speck arrived in Rick's life at a moment of looing uncertainty,...

In the final volume of the Pulitzer Prize–winner's bestselling and beloved American saga that began with All Over but the Shoutin’ and continued with Ava’s Man, this "evocative family memoir” (Boston Globe) delivers an unforgettable rumination about fathers and sons.
Bragg documents a mesmerizing journey back in time to the lush Alabama landscape of his youth, to

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New York City, 1902. On the day of her wedding to Calder Hart, amateur sleuth Francesca Cahill is lured away to a private viewing of a portrait that could destroy her reputation: the nude Hart commissioned of her. Desperate to recover the scandalous portrait, she's led into a trap with no way to escape - until it's too late. When Francesca finally arrives at the church, it's empty. Devastated, when Hart tells her their estrangement is for the best,...

Manhattan, 1902. Despite the misgivings of her fiancé, Calder Hart, irrepressible heiress and intrepid sleuth Francesca Cahill cannot turn away from a threat that is terrorizing the tenement neighborhood of lower Manhattan. A madman has attacked three women. The first two survived; the third was found dead. All the victims were poor, beautiful Irishwomen - and Francesca fears that her dear friends Maggie Kennedy and Gwen O'Neil could be next.