A Stranger in the Kingdom: A Novel

ISBN: 0618240101

Author: Mosher, Howard Frank

Condition: New

This 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).In 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.Set 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 WeeklyA real mystery in the best and truest sense.-Lee Smith, New York Times Book ReviewA Winner of the New England Book Award