Blood River Rising

 Blood River Rising is available locally at Stonecrest Book and Toy in Osage Beach, Missouri, the Miller County Museum in Tuscumbia, Missouri, the Boone County Historical Society in Columbia, Missouri, Stonecrest II in Jefferson City, Missouri, and the Chautauqua Institute's Bookstore in Chautauqua, New York.  Or, get your copy online at Barnes and Noble.com or Amazon.com. Want a signed copy for a gift? Contact the author directly through this website. 

"The KKK weren't never about race. It were always about power and greed."

So begins 86-year-old Hadley Thompson, who insists a rural historian research why two people were murdered. At first, Hubbell has little interest in the matter. Not only did the murders take place in 1924, there never was a question of who committed them. What difference could a motive make now? It is Thompson's insistence that an active Ku Klux Klan chapter fueled the feud between the blue-eyed Thompsons and their red-haired neighbors that helps change Hubbell's mind.

Soon Thompson and Hubbell are an unlikely duo, tramping through field grass, combing through copies of dusty newspapers, and driving down gravel roads to discover what made friends and neighbors turn against each other in post World War I America. More than just a story of a feud, Blood River Rising whispers a warning for today's increasingly diverse society.