The Savag

ΓÇ£Literary thrillers just donΓÇÖt come any better than Ron CurrieΓÇÖs The Savage,Noble Death of Babs Dionne. ItΓÇÖs profoundly serious and terrifying in equal measure.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇôRichard RussoPulitzer Prize winning author of Somebody’s Fool A mythicpropulsive novel about the tangled fates of a matriarchal crime family in Maine. Your ancestors breathe through you. Sometimesthey call for vengeance. Babs Dionneproud Franco-Americandoting grandmotherand vicious crime matriarchrules her small town of WatervilleMainewith an iron fist. She controls the flow of drugs into Little Canada with the help of her loyal lieutenantsgirlfriends since they were teenagersand her eldest daughterLoria Marine vet struggling with addiction. When a drug kingpin discovers that his numbers are down in the upper northeasthe sends a malevolent forceknown only as The Manto investigate. At the same timeBabs’s youngest daughterSishas gone missingwhich doesn’t seem at all like a coincidence. In twenty-four hoursSis will be found deadand the whole town will seek shelter from BabsΓÇÖs wrath. The SavageNoble Death of Babs Dionne is a crime saga like no otherwith a ferocious matriarch at its bruisedbeating heart. With sharp wit and profound empathyaward-winning author Ron Curriedelivers an unforgettable novel exploring loveretributionand the ancestral roots that both nurture and trap us.