The Great Meadows is a moving philosophical tale with the veneer of a small town murder mystery.
Lyrical and gritty in turns, it'll leave you feeling hopeful for a return of its Odysseus-like protagonist who is just trying to find home -
for good this time.
Independent Book Review
Levi Motley is an aimless rambler fleeing his latest personal tragedy. Moussa Diab is a spiritual pilgrim journeying to a Trappist monastery. When Levi spots Moussa hitchhiking down a rural Kentucky highway, their lives become ensnared in a decades-old mystery unfolding in the bourbon capital of the world, Bardstown.
Levi delivers the young pilgrim to his destination. Three days later, Moussa’s body is discovered on a nearby riverbank. Within twenty-four hours, a local man confesses
to the killing.
But he’s lying.
Why?
Because small towns hold dark secrets. This secret draws Levi into a perilous confrontation with an amorphous power bent on concealing the truth. If Levi can uncover the secret and check that power, then he will reconcile the wounds of his troubled past and discover what really happened to Moussa Diab out there in the elusive Great Meadows.
​ But the thing about dark secrets is…they’re meant to remain untold.