The Cove

I'm not a fan of American women readers - they usually are too brash, to high pitched for my ears, but this was OK.
The story is well written, with good hooks along the way which are not explained but which lead the reader to the outcome of the story very well. The language is lovely, depicting time and place well. References to plants I'm not familiar with but which give the idea of a post war rural idyll with undeveloped countryside but also hard work for its agricultural inhabitants. But also of a backwater, ignorant and bigoted, where the lynch mob rules whether that is towards those with a birthmark who are deemed to be a witch, or of those of German ancestry who are deemed to be spies. Sadly one could make parallels with views held in some quarters about muslims today.
My first book by Ron Rash and mightily impressed by him as a story teller