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A Stranger in the Kingdom

by Howard Frank Mosher · 1989

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Howard Frank Mosher has earned both critical acclaim and a wide readership for his vivid historical portraits of northern New England residents in his fictional Kingdom County, Vermont. A Stranger in the Kingdomtells the unforgettable story of a brutal murder in a small town and the devastating events that follow. The town's new preacher, a black man, finds himself on trial more for who he is than for what he might have done in this powerful drama of passion, prejudice, and innocence suddenly lost . . . and perhaps found again.

Genre
mysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
raceraceMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisVermontVermontMore like thisLess of thisNew EnglandNew EnglandMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 432 pages

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