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Nothing Save the Bones Inside Her (Angus Hardgrave Book 2) Kindle Edition
"It's hard to turn the other cheek with a rifle barrel in your mouth..."
But Angus wants more.
Alone when her father dies, eighteen-year-old Emeline Margulies believes she hears the voice of God tell her to escape the clutches of a violent Korean War vet by marrying Angus Hardgrave--a man rumored to have pitiable luck with wives.
She finds herself trapped between a stalking rapist and a serial killer. As each decision leads her closer to destruction, Emeline must choose between following the faith that got her into trouble... Or the moxie, resolve, and evil within that promise to get her out.
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★Praise for Nothing Save the Bones Inside Her from readers like You. ★
★★★★★ This may very well be the perfect novel for me. It has everything I love about fiction. Within the first couple pages I was instantly transported into a world I will never inhabit, and among people I may never meet. The narrative is rhythmic. Lindemuth never slips you any ten-penny words, but your mind is still blown. The pacing, the suspense, the language... This will do you solid.
★★★★★ I could not put the book down until I finished it. I enjoy nothing more than a good page turner. the story was dark yet compelling and it had a satisfying conclusion. I kept picturing it as an award winning movie and wondering who would play the parts of these characters.
★★★★★ This is not the genra I typically read. It was recommended to me and once I started I didn't put it down until I couldn't keep my eyes open, then I couldn't wait to finish it the next day. Such a good book that I downloaded another Clayton Lindemuth book to read next. This is a well written and must read suspense.
★Praise for Clayton Lindemuth★
Clayton Lindemuth's works have been smashingly reviewed by Publishers Weekly (starred review and best of the week), Indie Next List, Kirkus, BlueInk Review, Foreword Reviews, Seattle Book Review, Manhattan Book Review, Indie Reader, Reader Views, Spinetingler Magazine, Hardboiled Wonderland, various independent best of the year mentions, (Spinetingler and DoSomeDamage, among others). Clayton's novels Cold Quiet Country and My Brother's Destroyer have been published in France by Le Seuil, and have been charmingly reviewed by Le Monde, La Croix, Le Figaro.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date5 Jan. 2014
- File size1.7 MB
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- ASIN : B00H9UQH6U
- Publisher : Hardgrave Enterprises
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- Publication date : 5 Jan. 2014
- Edition : 1st
- Language : English
- File size : 1.7 MB
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- Print length : 417 pages
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 June 2016Not that long ago I didn't know that Southern Noir was a genre but in the last few months I have read quite a lot of it.
This is an excellent book that is beautifully written, although the themes are unremittingly dark throughout. Stephen King wrote long ago that when reading the books of great writers you become so immersed in the story and the imagery that you forget that you are reading (I paraphrase slightly) and Clayton Lindemuth acheives this here.
I wholeheartedly recommend this book.
As an aside, at the end of the book he reveals that it is self-published - and it is a sign of the quality of the editing and proofing as well as the author that this was not obvious until then (unlike so many other kindle books).
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 January 2014I'm pretty sure it was the title that first caught my eye with this book and when I began to read the book I can remember I groaned, but I have to say honestly that this book had me totally hooked, my groan was because the writing and prose originally indicated that the story was probably written about 1920 and also the authors name seemed very old fashioned, well you know what they say about the word "assume" and I fully hold my hands up to being an "ass" . original, unique and well worth the read "you'll be rooting for Deet and Emmeline" and also unlike a lot of ' self-published' books, no spelling mistakes.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 July 2017Born in the early fifties I resonate with that rural ignorant era,
And find the Author hits the nail on the head with his insight of those times. I would recommend this book to anyone, as a really good book.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 January 2014I loved this. To begin with, I was a bit wary of being thrust straight into a particularly violent and horrible opening, but I am so very glad I persevered and finished this book. It is a classic fight, on so many levels, between good and evil. The evil is so bad it seems as if good could never overcome it. I won't say more except that the characters are beautifully rendered, the countryside against which this rural noir story is set leaps into life and is an integral part of the story and the thinking behind this book provocative and fundamental.
Not for the faint-hearted, but so very worthwhile.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 October 2016I'm not usually one for writing reviews so will just say it is very rare I read two books in succession by the same author. Now about to download his latest and I think it will go straight to the front of the queue, which will make it three in succession....
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 January 2014Brilliant reading,hard to put down once you start,for once a story with a beginning and an end, very very good
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 November 2016I read this after Cold, Quiet Country and have the rest of Lindemuth's books on my reading list now. Hard boiled noir....
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 March 2017I greatly look forward to reading more by this author. For me this book was a page turner, partly because of the main character and partly because of the way in which this fearsome story unfolds. Set in rural Pennsylvania in the late 1950’s this novel centres on a true human monster: world war two veteran Angus Hardgrave; brutal, ignorant and violent, the father of two boys whose separate mothers have already fled his beatings, never to be heard of again.
When the novel opens Angus, perpetually on the lookout for the next scam, is marrying a religious 18 year old girl, his fourth wife, in order to squander the fruits of her modest inheritance. He’s also wants an unpaid housekeeper who won’t object to his rough manhandling’s so let’s face it; Angus isn’t quite the feminist. Things don’t improve when he discovers that his young bride has more backbone than most, not that he much cares as he’s confident he can sort her out with a few slaps. If you add these actions to his habit of seeking the murderous advice of a nearby walnut tree the situation, and Angus, soon start to unravel in various bloody ways.
The violence can be swift, unexpected and very understated. A few times I found myself going; wait, what? And rereading a passage to be sure of what just occurred. There is no great build up to any single act of brutality or catastrophe, it all just happens in an Elmore Leonard, matter of fact kind of fashion.
If I have any quibble with the writing of Angus’s character it’s this; here is a man in his forties, no stranger to murder and criminality, utterly lacking empathy, possibly illiterate, who nevertheless commutes four hours a day to and from his job as a roughneck on a derrick. Outside of this job he’s a competent carpenter and a conscientious farmer – insofar as he bullies his young sons into doing the farming and carpentry for him. But he keeps bread on the table. This seeming adherence to duty is the polar opposite of most of his other attitudes and actions. Also, his style of speech during his first person descriptions seems a lot more articulate than his actual dialogue. But that’s a triviality. It takes nothing away from the sense of all-pervading horror that permeates this very good, very literate and very well written Southern Noir novel.
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- spy1ceReviewed in the United States on 20 December 2013
5.0 out of 5 stars Batter my heart
Clayton Lindemuth’s NOTHING SAVE THE BONES INSIDE HER (2013) is a story about a believer and her God. But this is no feel-good-hands-in-the-air-and-hug-your-neighbor faith. Emeline Margulies Hardgrave believes in a God who has much power, but who demands much in return. Faith can conquer, Lindemuth seems to claim, but first, the believer must be conquered by faith.
Emeline’s journey shows her overcoming domination and power through submission to her God’s will. Her God is a harsh teacher who schools her in submitting to His will in the face of an evil that has free rein in the Appalachian mountains of western Pennsylvania. Can Emeline allow herself to become an instrument of righteousness? If she can, her vision of peace will become the future. If she can’t, a centuries-old evil made manifest will claim another life.
Emeline’s tormentors–both her stalker and her husband–want one thing: to hold in their fists dominion over the life and death of every living thing in Devil’s Elbow. The novel’s theme of man’s misuse of power is made clear in the breeding and fighting of pit bulls, which Lindemuth renders with particular detail and nerve-withering force.
But even though Lindemuth can make words climb into your mind and lodge like memory, the purpose is never mere shock porn. In this novel, puppies are tortured into being fighting dogs because powerless men need to pretend that they are strong. Justice comes with four legs and clamped jaws, though. Every man who trains a pit bull in this book has created a hound of hell, and the hounds exercise a moral force in the book’s punishing universe.
Lindemuth’s world is no place for half-measures, not for dogs nor characters nor author. His subject and style are in the tradition of John Donne, mixed with a northern Appalachian Gothic tone reminiscent of William Faulkner, and a crystalline, straight line of descent from Flannery O’Connor. The stalker’s car in NOTHING SAVE THE BONES INSIDE HER could appear in O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find;” the trailer that Deet fashions for Emeline is like the Bundren family’s wagon in Faulkner’s AS I LAY DYING.
Lindemuth’s last novel, COLD QUIET COUNTRY, is a Wyoming riff on Arthurian legend, a fact tipped to us by the characters’ names: Guinevere and Gale G’Wain. If you’re thinking that their literary pedigrees alone make Lindemuth’s books worth reading, you’d be right. These modern-day revenge tragedies and morality plays are spiritual–deep explorations of what we know is right and wrong, fair and unfair, moral and immoral, good and evil–the lights that illuminate, sometimes dimly, our journey through the world.
Lindemuth is a writer’s writer, too, in his use of setting, voice, and point of view. Anyone who practices fiction writing will benefit from a study of how he makes different voices come off the page through word choice, punctuation, and details.
Such a charged, emotional reading experience is an unusual, unsettling, yet rewarding experience, and I look forward to spending time with Clayton Lindemuth’s next release, MY BROTHER’S DESTROYER (2013).
- Ozzie cactus fanReviewed in Australia on 4 March 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars Clayton Lindemuth scores again!
Another wonderfully written country noir novel by Clayton Lindemuth. This novel deals with dog fighting, an excess of religious zeal and murder. And a very naïve, maybe even stupid, woman who eventually comes to her senses and starts to rely upon herself rather than her God. The writing is superb, especially the many funny but entirely descriptive similes. I look forward to reading more books by Mr Lindemuth - one of my favourite writers.
- Steven ChristensenReviewed in the United States on 16 October 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars The Walnut Tree....A Sequel!
In the debut novel "Sometimes Bone: The Walnut Tree on Devils Elbow" Angus Hargrave is ten years old at the end of the story. Fast forward thirty some years and Angus is in his forties in this fine sequel. Angus has lost four wives when Emeline Margulies pappy dies and within a week she believes God has inspired her to marry Angus.
So begins the story of good versus pure evil as Emeline struggles to follow her marriage vows while being violated and degraded in every human way possible. She is possessed by a vile man and coveted by two other men as well. The story line moves along within this triangle of lust while Angus works an oil rig, makes plans to create a walnut whiskey still and gets involved with dog fighting, the scenes off which are horrifying to read.
Emeline struggles to maintain her belief in God while questioning his wisdom and plan for her life until it reaches a breaking point and she must make a powerful moral decision. This book is hard, vulgar and at times gut wrenching to read and if this story doesn't move you emotionally there is something missing with your soul. There are a number of passages that are brutal and harsh but will be long remembered by this reader. Clayton Lindemuth is one of most unusual authors i have ever encountered and look forward to reading another series he has written. This book is damn good....Read It!!!!
- Ronald RossReviewed in Australia on 27 February 2021
1.0 out of 5 stars An obnoxious story.
Horrible book....obnoxious storyline....couldnt finish it....i regret having bought it....
- Lake LoonReviewed in the United States on 30 June 2020
4.0 out of 5 stars How strong is Emeline?
Can Emeline survive mean men, mean dogs and a hard life to do the Lord's work? A good read that keeps you guessing. I still think My Brother's Destroyer by Clayton Lindemuth is the best but I have not been disappointed with any of his books.