David Sylvester
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When the body of fourteen-year-old Tess Fowler is found in the Erie Canal, two outcasts fleeing their checkered pasts team up to solve her murder whil
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e navigating the contentious political and racial climate that has torn the nation apart.
It is July 1863, a pivotal time in the Civil War and the experiment in self-governance is in crisis. Jimmy Ryan, a veteran of the Mexican War, a man at war with himself as America is with itself, and Jack Carraway, a likable, naive Scottish immigrant traveling east from Minnesota, set out to find the killer.
But when a bounty hunter appears in the village, tracking a fugitive slave, the two must decide between bringing a killer to justice or saving a young man from a terrible fate. Their choices end in an unexpected and tragic climax.
With New York's storied Erie Canal and the notorious West Troy (now Watervliet) sidecut as a backdrop, Hung Be the Heavens with Scarlet is a sweeping epic spanning two iconic American wars while exploring the political, cultural and racial chaos that is all too familiar to Americans today.
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