Note: this was actually published on 4/6/25; I backdated to 3/24/25, when I finished the book
This is a short recommendation for friend Dave Dobson's What Grows from the Dead. In the author's note Dave says his premise with the novel was to "merely start him out about as low as he thought he could possibly be, and then to start to make things worse for him." Bujoldian in approach and tone! Things are grim, but never grimdark, in this thriller / mystery / crime(?) novel set in modern day western NC.