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Smoke On the Mountains

by Sam Knupp

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It's 2018 in the regular world, and 1864 just a few miles down Main Street. The civil war uncivilly rages on in heartland America. A great nation is divided against itself. Tearing a few statues down shouldn't rip at the social fabric of a whole country, but after Charlottesville, and that innocent girl being run over - bad things getting worse is only to be expected. Stonewall Jackson sits precariously in the town square, while down in the 'holler' an invading army is encamped. A little girl sets out to find her missing puppy, walking a dangerous path between the past, and the future, and when she doesn't come home a church bell rings the coming storm: what is lost, and what is found is the very meaning of profound. Timberville, VA is ground zero for murder.The seven-foot tall blind pastor over at the Tastee-Freez Church has seen this day coming in his 'mind's eye'. A dark poem overshadows the Blue Ridge. The probable, and the impossible are about to collide. Monuments in town squares, and cemeteries will come alive, and God in Heaven will finally take sides. It's getting as cold as winter. Spring is far away. Smoke is on the mountains. A little girl waits to be found. "Tears fall from heaven; then the Shenandoah do carry them away."… (more)
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Hundreds of pages all kinds of characters are looking for a lost girl. A murder mystery without a corpse. Conversations, small-town gossip, and a 2018 perspective on religion, wisdom, the making of a storyline, and a deliberate stepping aside from the scene. The blind preacher Marvel Goodman receives his sight half-way through the book. Is Pepper Anne dead? Even if someone from Timberville confessed the murder at two-thirds of the book, Marvel and Buddy continue looking for the answer who committed the cruel murder and putting Pepper Anne away in a rental coffin. Was it done in plain sight? A local or stranger? Follow the money. Prepare yourself to an extensive quest along many small things happening over the course of little time in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

Everybody has a 'story to tell' especially around a murder mystery. Where smoke is, is fire. And welcome to a Father Brown-like American counterpart, the seven-foot-tall blind pastor over at the Tastee-Freez Church, the theologian turned into a detective. Although it cost a couple of hours to get into the writing style, Smoke on the Mountains brought fun and laughter later on. ( )
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It's 2018 in the regular world, and 1864 just a few miles down Main Street. The civil war uncivilly rages on in heartland America. A great nation is divided against itself. Tearing a few statues down shouldn't rip at the social fabric of a whole country, but after Charlottesville, and that innocent girl being run over - bad things getting worse is only to be expected. Stonewall Jackson sits precariously in the town square, while down in the 'holler' an invading army is encamped. A little girl sets out to find her missing puppy, walking a dangerous path between the past, and the future, and when she doesn't come home a church bell rings the coming storm: what is lost, and what is found is the very meaning of profound. Timberville, VA is ground zero for murder.The seven-foot tall blind pastor over at the Tastee-Freez Church has seen this day coming in his 'mind's eye'. A dark poem overshadows the Blue Ridge. The probable, and the impossible are about to collide. Monuments in town squares, and cemeteries will come alive, and God in Heaven will finally take sides. It's getting as cold as winter. Spring is far away. Smoke is on the mountains. A little girl waits to be found. "Tears fall from heaven; then the Shenandoah do carry them away."

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