nHoward Frank Mosher has earned both critical acclaim and a wide readership for his vivid historical portraits of northern New England residents in his fictional Kingdom County, Vermont. A Stranger in the Kingdom tells the unforgettable story of a brutal murder in a small town and the devastating events that follow. The towns new preacher, a black man, finds himself on trial more for who he is than for what he might have done in this powerful drama of passion, prejudice, and innocence suddenly lost . . . and perhaps found again. nThis novel of murder and its aftermath in a small Vermont town in the 1950s is reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird...Absorbing (New York Times). n nIn Kingdom County, Vermont, the towns new Presbyterian minister is a black man, an unsettling fact for some of the locals. When a French-Canadian woman takes refuge in his parsonage -- and is subsequently murdered -- suspicion immediately falls on the clergyman. While his thirteen-year-old son struggles in the shadow of the towns accusations, and his older son, a lawyer, fights to defend him, a father finds himself on trial more for who he is than for what he might have done. n nSet in northern Vermont in 1952, Moshers tale of racism and murder is powerful, viscerally affecting and totally contemporary in its exposure of deep-seated prejudice and intolerance... [A] big, old-fashioned novel. -- Publishers Weekly n nA real mystery in the best and truest sense. -- Lee Smith, New York Times Book Review n nA Winner of the New England Book Award nThis novel of murder and its aftermath in a small Vermont town in the 1950s is reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird...Absorbing (New York Times). n nIn Kingdom County, Vermont, the towns new Presbyterian minister is a black man, an unsettling fact for some of the locals. When a French-Canadian woman takes refuge in his parsonage -- and is subsequently murdered -- suspicion immediately falls on the clergyman. While his thirteen-year-old son struggles in the shadow of the towns accusations, and his older son, a lawyer, fights to defend him, a father finds himself on trial more for who he is than for what he might have done. n nSet in northern Vermont in 1952, Moshers tale of racism and murder is powerful, viscerally affecting and totally contemporary in its exposure of deep-seated prejudice and intolerance... [A] big, old-fashioned novel. -- Publishers Weekly n nA real mystery in the best a