Charlie

Description

Early one morning in November of 1972 a young boy knocks on his neighbor s door and explains that he can t find his mother. The neighbor goes to the boy s house and does find the mother, lying bludgeoned to death on the family room floor. Five hours later police find the boy s father hunting, two hours from their home. He becomes the primary suspect in his wife s murder. In the subsequent months and years the father and his sons live under the shadow of that murder trying to protect the victim s reputation and to avenge her death. Charlie is Steve Powell s first novel (Source: Google Books API)