A Call To Rowan

Brown Wiggins, an inept assassin, has been summoned to the small, southern town of Rowan in north Louisiana to eliminate an unnamed target. His arrival in Rowan follows the end of the Korean War and coincides with the lives of thirteen-year-old Marley Bledsoe and her older sister, Jolene. Daughters of a share-cropper, the two eventually take different paths for their future. Though the sisters and Brown Wiggins never encounter one another directly, Rowan’s secrets are revealed through their lives and the lives of those who reside in the community. Like other small towns in the deep South in the ’50s, this one is on the brink of profound change.

Mary H. Manhein is the author of The Bone Lady, Trail of Bones, and Bone Remains, nonfiction accounts of her experiences in the fascinating field of forensic anthropology. She is coauthor of Fragile Grounds, Louisiana’s Endangered Cemeteries.

Her fictional publications include Floating Souls, The Canal Murders, and Murder in the Cities of the Dead. Additionally, her fictional series for young readers include Claire Carter: Bones Detective, The Mystery of the Bones in the Drainpipe and The Mystery of Skull Lake.