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n Coal Black is unfiltered mountain crime. Set in the hills of eastern Kentucky, these tales lay bare the dark realities of the region. Sometimes the backdrop is the opioid epidemic and all the human detritus and bloodshed that comes with it. Other times its poachers or petty thieves who take center stage, people whose wild desperation invite danger everywhere they go. High in the hills the action takes place, alongside the rarely seen animals who hunt up there, and sometimes alongside the haints and spirits of popular folklore. n The stories are full of action, twists and turns, and characters on both sides of the law who navigate the treacherous, often violent terrain that spares so few. Coal Black is a collection of gritty crime stories-cleverly drawn tales with sometimes savage surprise endings. n Praise for COAL BLACK: n Chris McGinleys aptly named Coal Black grabs the reader by the shirt collar and doesnt turn loose. These stories are as dark as the coal that is no longer in the mountains McGinley writes about, channeling the haints of Donald Ray Pollock and Frank Bill while speaking in a hard-edged voice that is undoubtedly the authors own. These are tough tales about tough people and I cant imagine someone picking up this book and not being impressed. I know I was. -Charles Dodd White, author of In the House of Wilderness n Mesmerizing and intense, the stories in Coal Black are a treat to read, every honed sentence reminding us that were in excellent hands as we travel into the darkness of haunting crime and equally haunted countryside. This collection rocks. -Rusty Barnes, author of The Ridgerunner and The Last Danger n Brutal yet beautiful, sparse but with moments of lush emotional resonance, Chris McGinleys debut collection of short fiction, Coal Black, heralds a new and necessary voice in crime fiction. The prose is so sharp that it begs to be read slowly, to linger with the reader, as McGinleys stories explore the effects of a lost industry and the devastation of opioids in rural Appalachia. Rarely have I come across a debut so assured. This is a book that deserves an audience, and stories that deserve to be remembered. -E.A. Aymar, author of Unrepentant n These stories offer some of the best rural noir youll ever read. They are a pitch-black journey into the heart of America. -Nick Kolakowski, author of Maxine Unleashes Doomsday n Oh. My. God. Have yall read Chris McGinleys Coal Black: Stories? If
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