Write Sorrow on the Bosom of the Earth

by Howard Marsee

Overview

It is 1972, and Clay Dautry, a successful criminal attorney, has left Los Angeles under a cloud. He is returning to Southeastern Kentucky, to the coal country where he grew up, to unravel a family mystery. For months he's published a classified ad in a local newspaper. In it he seeks to learn why his father killed a man in 1929. Even before he arrives, people have begun to die. As he exits the train, Clay sees a mentally retarded black man in shackles. The man is Ortie, and he's shot a local businessman in a practical joke gone terribly awry. Ellen Reames, a young Kentucky attorney, stands beside Ortie as an angry crowd throws eggs.Clay and Ellen set out to solve two mysteries: how Ortie came to shoot a local restaurant owner, and why Clay's father killed a competing mine operator. Someone will murder to protect secrets hidden for forty years, and Clay and Ellen become targets of a deadly conspiracy.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151345354
Publisher:	Black Hammock Press, LLC
Publication date:	03/12/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	373
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Howard Marsee is a trial lawyer practicing in Orlando, Florida. He now serves as a mediator, arbitrator and special magistrate. He received his B.A. degree from the University of South Florida, where he participated in readers' theater and wrote news stories for WUSF radio. Before attending law school, he taught English and journalism, and during part of that time attended the University of Minnesota on a Wall Street Journal Fellowship. He obtained his law degree from the University of Florida and there served as Associate Editor of the Law Review. He is the author of various scholarly articles and poetry.