In rural Charon County, Virginia, Titus Crown, the area’s first black  sheriff,  goes to see about a shooting at the  high school.  This is current day so the idea of a school shooting panics everyone. Titus is a home grown boy returned from college and some years with the FBI. He knows how to do things right but with a lot more resources. He commands respect from most but the usual racist hate-baiters are certainly around. So far his job as sheriff has been common every-day duties of law-enforcement everywhere, arrest drunks and stop traffic violations, quiet domestic violence and provide security at various celebrations.  

All the Sinners Bleed 
by S.A. Cosby 
2023 
Read by Adam Lazarre-White 13h 5m
Rating: A  /crime thriller 

But when a white history teacher is shot by a young black man who then goes outside and gets shot by one of the newly arrived police officers it opens a whole new can of terror. Investigating turns up a very disturbing video and a grave site is found containing seven very youngvictims, their small black bodies brutalized by the torture which led to their deaths. 

The graphic nature of the brutality in this book got to me.  So that’s your fair warning. It’s not for the faint of heart, but I did finish. Also, I knocked the rating down a peg due to the violence.  That’s not to say it’s not well written, it surely is. I just took off the “+” I’d usually give a book like this.