Beulah Hill

William Heffernan

PB 281 PP 210 x 135 1888451408 $27.50 APN 9781888451405 Crime Fiction Akashic Books

A mystery by the author of The Dinosaur Club and The Corsican

An erotic thriller combined with a true mystery, Beulah Hill, by bestselling author William Heffernan, is a brilliant and deeply original work of fiction. Set in the 1930s, at a time when the Great Depression had created widespread fear and Hitler was just beginning his reign in Germany, Beulah Hill tells the story of a white man who was murdered in an almost ritualistic manner on land owned by the only remaining black family in a small Vermont town. Heading the investigation is a young constable who is himself a deeply conflicted member of the ‘bleached’ (or mixed race) underclass and who is intimately involved with the proud and headstrong black woman at the center of the killing.

‘The whispered revelations that come spilling out of Beulah Hill are like ghostly voices you sometimes hear in the attic – soft, sad and disturbingly urgent.’ – New York Times