Babs Dionne is a very proud Franco American, loving grandma, and ruthless crime boss. She knows everybody and everything that goes on her small town while she controls the drug trade with the help of her oldest friends and older daughter. Her enterprise and her family are threatened when another drug kingpin who wants Babs and her network to work for him sends a ruthless fixer to Babs’s town. It can’t be a coincidence that Babs’s younger daughter goes missing at the same time.
This is a dark and sometimes darkly humorous book. I liked that the town’s criminal enterprise is run by a bunch of grannies and they can be cold-blooded- especially Babs. I don’t want to give too much away because I think the less you know going in the better. The pace is fast, the town is bleak, the characters are well drawn, and the story is heartbreaking at times. I recommend this one especially if you’re looking for a different kind of thriller/suspense story. Just be aware there are numerous trigger warnings including sexual assault, PTSD, and physical abuse.
Several characters in this book speak English and French. Can you speak more than one language?
Sadly I can’t. I took Spanish, Latin, and Greek in high school. Never kept up with it after high school.
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About the Author
Ron Currie is the author of four novels. He has won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award, the Alex Award, and the Pushcart Prize. His books have been translated into fifteen languages, and his short fiction and nonfiction have received recognition in Best American anthologies. As a screenwriter he worked most recently on the Apple TV+ series Extrapolations and has developed projects with AMC Studios, Amblin Television, and ITV America. He lives in Portland, Maine and teaches in the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA program.
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