Dark of the Moon

by Janice Daugharty

Book Overview

A moonshiner's downtrodden wife. A federal agent in search of illegal stills. A love neither expected. A situation about to explode. When her cruel husband, Hamp, kidnaps Mac, an FBI agent working... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060976551
• ISBN13: 9780060976552
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Southern flavor

This is a novel about a revenuer who gets kidnapped by a still owner. It really sucked me in. I thought that this was real until I learned that noone cares about stills anymore and the revenuer was after drugs not booze. O well, we live and learn. It has a wonderful flavor of the south. As a lover and newcomer to the south, I love the full, robust, swampy feeling of it. Ms Daugharty is a great writer. I'll look for her some more.

What A Book!!

I love this Southern author. She is awesome. I have read all her books now & I've loved them all. Her books have a little of everything: humor, romance, suspense. I can't wait for any new books that she has coming.

Excellent novel!

Wonderfully written. Daugharty has a true "voice of the South". This story grabs you from the start and keeps you going.

Janice Daugharty's book is sensuous and romantic.

Janice Daugharty is a fantastic storyteller. She creates original storylines and unforgettable characters. "Dark of the Moon" is sensuous and romantic, but life affirming as well. The central character, Merdie is unhappily married to an abusive man. When a stranger enters their closed world, she must decide whether to remain the dutiful wife and stay with her family or lose everything and leave with the man she has fallen in love with. Merdie's dilemma is enlightening and inspiring; sometimes you must follow your heart. I loved this book so much. Janice Daugharty is a remarkable writer and I am desperate to read any new book that she has written.

The best novel ever about moonshiners & their antagonists

A wonderfully sensitive, closely detailed, and altogether excellent novel of an old-moonshine, new-marijuana family and the ATF agent who blows themn apart with love, set on the Florida-Georgia border in the early 1990s. Janice Daugharty is the latest great writer to wear the gorgeous Sounthern-gothic mantle, and she does it justice, as a worthy, witty heir to Flannery O'Connor. Her style sings with new Southernisms and timeless poetics, her characters come to full contradiuctory life in every crackling scene, and her imagination satisfies every last yearning a reader might have. This novel's a gem!