Books with author TR Pearson

A small, bedraggled Virginia town is home to a near-derelict Georgian mansion called Eaglesworth. The house sits neglected and weathered until a stranger rolls in to bring it back to life. The story of the sordid secrets the renovation reveals is told by a pack of local barflies who give us town history through the bottom of a shot glass and build a hilarious biography of a place.

A small, bedraggled Virginia town is home to a near-derelict Georgian mansion called Eaglesworth. The house sits neglected and weathered until a stranger rolls in to bring it back to life. The story of the sordid secrets the renovation reveals is told by a pack of local barflies who give us town history through the bottom of a shot glass and build a hilarious biography of a place.

When a decent, regular guy in Virginia does his thieving neighbor a favor by driving him out to a seemingly abandoned farm to steal an old panel truck, the two spark the ire of the hidden, quasi-occult residents of the place who prove eager to inflict Old Testament vengeance on just about everybody in a story of moral anxiety, misguided romance, and the age-old wages of sin.

When itinerant lawman Ray Tatum's quick visit to the North Carolina Outer Banks is complicated by a homicide, Ray gets hired to help track down the killer and finds himself locked into a winter at the shore. Fortunately for Ray, the seaside desolation suits him right down to the ground. First In Flight is one of six Ray Tatum novels. They were written to be read in no particular order.

In Cry Me A River, T.R. Pearson writes of murder and its consequences in a small southern town. By book's end we of course know who done it and why, but the greatest pleasure lies in Pearson's own investigations into carnal relations, sexual jealousy, men and women, the mean, the low-down, and the dead. That he manages to do so with such winsome humor and unflagging originality is a tribute to his craft. Cry Me A River is T.R. Pearson at his finest.