Allen Eskens, author of The Shadows We Hide
Tuesday, November 27th at 7 pm
 Content is excited to welcome back bestselling author Allen Eskens as he reads from THE SHADOWS WE HIDE, his highly-anticipated sequel to the national bestseller THE LIFE WE BURY.
Joe Talbert returns to investigate the murder of the father he never knew, and to reckon with his own family’s past. Joe Talbert, Jr. has never once met his namesake. Now out of college, a cub reporter for the Associated Press in Minneapolis, he stumbles across a story describing the murder of a man named Joseph Talbert in a small town in southern Minnesota.
Full of curiosity about whether this man might be his father, Joe is shocked to find that none of the town’s residents have much to say about the dead man-other than that his death was long overdue. Joe discovers that the dead man was a loathsome lowlife who cheated his neighbors, threatened his daughter, and squandered his wife’s inheritance after she, too, passed away–an inheritance that may now be Joe’s.
Mired in uncertainty and plagued by his own devastated relationship with his mother, who is seeking to get back into her son’s life, Joe must put together the missing pieces of his family history– before his quest for discovery threatens to put him in a grave of his own.
Allen Eskens is the USA Today bestselling author of THE LIFE WE BURY, THE GUISE OF ANOTHER, THE HEAVENS MAY FALL, and THE DEEP DARK DESCENDING. He is the recipient of the Barry Award, the Rosebud Award, Minnesota Book Award, and the Silver Falchion Award, and has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, the Thriller Award, and the Anthony Award. His debut novel, THE LIFE WE BURY, has been published in 21 languages and is being developed for a feature film. Eskens lives with his wife, Joely, in out-state Minnesota, where he was a criminal defense attorney for 25 years.
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