That Bright Land

1866: One year after the surrender of the Confederate army in Appomattox signaled the end of the Civil War, a veteran Union soldier will try to track down a killer who is waging his own war against the members of an isolated community in the North Carolina mountains.

About the author

Terry Roberts¿ direct ancestors have lived in the mountains of Western North Carolina since the time of the Revolutionary War. Steven Roberts, during the early 1900¿s, was the proprietor of the Mountain Park Hotel in the town of Hot Springs in Madison County, North Carolina. Julius and Belva Anderson Roberts lived and farmed near Hot Springs in Anderson Cove. Born in Asheville and raised in Weaverville, North Carolina, Roberts is the Director of the National Paideia Center and lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his family.

His debut novel, A Short Time To Stay Here, won the Willie Morris award for southern fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Terry Roberts, Roberts Terry
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.2016
• EAN: 9781630269760
• ISBN: 978-1-63026-976-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 215 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 572 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Thrillers / General, Fiction: special features, North Carolina, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Thriller / suspense fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, War, combat and military adventure fiction