Dry Bones in the Valley: A Novel (31 page)
Read Dry Bones in the Valley: A Novel Online
Authors: Tom Bouman
Particular acknowledgment is made to:
Pete, Kate, Nathaniel, and Katherine Bouman, for their steadfast support.
Joyce Wilbur and Ed John.
My family.
Bill Luce, for hunting lore and wisdom in the field.
Chief Tim Burgh, for his valuable perspective on rural law enforcement—any inaccuracies on that subject are mine alone.
Everyone at W. W. Norton & Company whose excellent work made this book real, in particular Eleen Cheung, John Glusman, Ryan Harrington, Ingsu Liu, and Nancy Palmquist, as well as my copy editor Dave Cole.
My beloved agent Neil Olson, without whose trust, advocacy, and editorial work this book would surely have been consigned to the woodstove.
My friend and editor Tom Mayer—brilliant, generous, and in the pocket.
Barbara Jean.
And to Emily, “Always, darling.”
Copyright © 2014 by Tom Bouman
All rights reserved
First Edition
Excerpt from
The American Songbag
by Carl Sandburg.
Copyright 1927, and renewed 1955 by Carl Sandburg.
Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
For information about permission to reproduce selections from this
book, write to Permissions, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110
For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please
contact W. W. Norton Special Sales at
[email protected] or 800-233-4830
Book design by Brooke Koven
Production manager: Devon Zahn
The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Bouman, Tom.
Dry bones in the valley : a novel / Tom Bouman.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-393-24302-4 (hardcover)
1. Police—Pennsylvania—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation—
Fiction. 3. Rural life—Pennsylvania—Fiction. 4. Social conflict—
Pennsylvania—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3602.O8923D79 2014
813′.6—dc23
2014002224
ISBN 978-0-393-24303-1 (e-book)
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110
W. W. Norton & Company Ltd., Castle House,
75/76 Wells Street, London W1T 3QT