Bloodwater

Name: Bloodwater
Brand: Premium Pulp Fiction
Price: 46.99 AUD
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By: Douglas Stuart McDaniel

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Paperback | 1 April 2026

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172 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.19

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For readers drawn to the moral pressure and civic reckoning found in Attica Locke's Texas noir and the haunted Gulf Coast interiors of Jesmyn Ward, Bloodwater is a literary Southern noir rooted in place, power, and the lies communities tell themselves to survive.

When Claudia Marston returns to coastal Mississippi to settle her parents' estate, she expects grief, logistics, and closure. What she finds instead is a town quietly reorganized around a charismatic street preacher whose ministry offers salvation to the desperate and obedience to everyone else. As Claudia is drawn into his orbit, she begins to see how faith, charity, law enforcement, and local politics have fused into something harder to name-and harder to escape.

Bloodwater moves between domestic thriller and civic indictment, tracing how moral authority is manufactured, how corruption hides behind good works, and how the Gulf Coast's history of storms, segregation, and extraction still shapes who is protected and who is expendable. This is a novel about inheritance in all its forms-property, belief, violence, silence-and about what it costs to refuse the version of the truth a town depends on.

Wholly Southern. Unsentimental. And unwilling to look away.

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