Tim Willocks was born in Stalybridge, Cheshire, in 1957 and studied medicine at University College Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1983 and now specializes in the treatment of addiction. He is author of two previous novels, Bad City Blues and Green River Rising. The latter was an international bestseller and will shortly be a major film.
You'll find many of the essentials of the Southern Gothic novel here: a lavish but strangely lifeless plantation house; a family member locked away in a secret hiding place; a devoted servant privy to dark family secrets; a corrupt and corrupting lawman; a hothouse atmosphere of decadence, venality and treachery; and murder, revenge, miscegenation, torture, and child abduction. And, as with any good Southern Gothic, you'll find that this is also a morality play in which the forces of good, however ragged, suspiciously motivated, and unlikely heroic, confront the forces of evil, both personal and institutional. Two letters from a supposed dead man, one to his killer and one to his millionaire mistress, trigger a violent quest that sweeps the reader along in its breakneck pace. A tour de force from the author of Green River Rising (LJ 9/1/94). [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/1/97.]‘Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.
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