By D.G. Martin
The good news is that three wonderful books about North Carolina will be published soon. The bad news is we must wait a few months to buy them.
In the meantime, here is what I know about each of them.
Wiley Cashâs new novel âWhen Ghosts Come Homeâ comes out in September.
Cash may be North Carolinaâs most promising and popular young fiction writer. His first three novels, âA Land More Kind Than Home,â âThis Dark Road to Mercy,â and âThe Last Ballad,â were highly praised bestsellers.
In âA Land More Kind Than Homeâ we met a storefront preacher, Pastor Carson Chambliss, a handler of snakes and a manipulator of people, one of the most complicated and interesting villains I have ever encountered. A more sympathetic important character was Sherriff Clem Barefield, who thinks of himself as an outsider in Madison County even though he has lived there for 25 years. The lead character of Cashâs new
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