***A Most Anticipated Book for 2023 in the Daily Mail, Irish Times and Sunday Independent***
''Compelling'' ANNE ENRIGHT
''Based on a real-life murder trial in 1897 West Virginia, this dazzling debut arrives with a Southern Gothic slant and a feminist spirit'' DAILY MAIL
''I was tenterhooked from the very first to the very last page'' JO BROWNING WROE, author of A Terrible Kindness
West Virginia, 1897. When young Zona Heaster Shue dies only a few months after her wedding, her mother Mary Jane becomes convinced that Zona was murdered - and by none other than her husband, Trout, the handsome blacksmith beloved in their small Southern town.
But when Trout is put on trial, no one believes he could have done it, apart from Mary Jane and Zona''s best friend Lucy, who was always suspicious of Trout. As the trial raises to fever pitch and the men of Greenbrier County stand aligned against them
