Ron Currie’s The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne follows the title character, a grandmother and crime boss in Maine whose empire begins to unravel when her daughter, Sis, goes missing and a sinister outsider arrives. When Sis is found dead, the whole town seeks shelter from Babs’ wrath as the story explores love, retribution, and the ancestral roots that both nurture and confine us. Brendan Slocumb’s The Dark Maestro: A Novel follows Curtis Wilson, a cello prodigy from the Southeast D.C. projects with a drug dealer named Zippy for a father. With the support of his father’s girlfriend, Larissa, Curtis achieves unimaginable success in the classical music world. But when Zippy turns state’s evidence, Curtis’ life disintegrates as he must give up what he loves the most.
Buy The Savage Noble Death of Babs Dionne – Currie
Buy The Dark Maestro: A Novel – Slocumb