David Cook Publisher

ISBN: 9781434799302

Hardback 290 pages

IT’S A CHRISTMAS NOVEL SET IN THE 1950s WITH MYSTERY, MURDER, AND FORGIVENESS.( from Don's site).

My Review:

A great book by Don Reid, this was his first book and it comes back around every year around Christmas.  It is set in 1958 right at Christmas time and tells a story about different characters. I was a young teen about that time and knew all about a lot of the things that is talked about in this book just not the people.  The story takes place in Mt. Jefferson, Va and it switches back and forth between the characters and lets each one talk about their life.  There was Walter, he was a sick man and he kept remembering back when he was a young lad and worked in the Crown theater, and about some live actors before the movies came.  He was 16 at the time and he really fell for the actress Adrienne.  He was the most remarkable character to me.  Then there was the police chief, alone with his wife and their pregnant 16 year old daughter  and how they handled the teen pregnancy back in the 1950's.  

The pastor had a wife that was more interested in another man than her own family, so the teen daughter decided she would steal from the mercantile. Two of the wives were sisters and the daughters of Walter, one was married to the doctor and the other was married to Mercantile manager.

As I would think like any small town there were tongues wagging telling this and that, and no always the truth. I don't know this for a fact if that is the way of small towns as I have never lived in town always in the country.

This book is really a good book and Don did a fine job.  Almost as good as his singing you heard I said ALMOST, I loved to hear the Statler Brothers and loved way back when they first got their start.  My children grew up listening to the old 33 1/3 lps and me singing alone as I worked in the house. 

This book was sent to me by Jeane at Wynn Wynn media free for me to post my honest review.