Plowing up a snake means to go looking for trouble, and trouble aplenty comes to picture postcard pretty Enoch, New Hampshire, where citizens believe in taking care of their own, even if that means killing someone who just needed killing. Based on a still unsolved murder in 1950s Northern New England, Plowing Up A Snake unearths the snakes barely buried as passions erupt, truth turns cruel, and death follows death. Only two people, Marjorie, the victim's widow and Clay, his cousin, want facts revealed, and soon they find themselves entangled in Enoch's wickedness.

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What would drive easy-going, likable Jim Hutchins to pick up a twelve-gauge and head for his sworn enemy? The IRS threatening to garnish his mechanic's wages? His kids providing the police department full-time employment? His grief-sodden wife making money by dancing naked for his brother-in-law? Better ask what's kept him from picking it up before--His wits? His keen insights into human pretension? His wry sense of humor? His rough-hewn knowledge of the human heart? Tension rules until the end as "The Suburbs of Heaven balances heartbreak and black comedic hilarity." (Newsday.)
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