Snakebit: A joyous tale of death, hate, and forbidden love.

By Bill Ed Scruggs

Southern Appalachians, 1963 The sheriff says Lucy Cutler stripped off her clothes to go swimming in the Caney River and was attacked by a horde of copperheads. But she was a modest lady, the water where her clothes were found is too swift for swimming, and copperheads aren't water snakes. Deputy sheriff Johnny Lee Cole is investigating but he's distracted by the pure country sweetness of a strange woman who grew up in a snake-handling church and was the last to see Lucy Cutler alive. Meanwhile other women die of multiple snakebites, while armed rednecks demand he stop a bus coming through with freedom riders headed for the deep south--and they'll do it if he won't. Deputy Cole is game, but he can't win 'em all. .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521502846
• ISBN13: 9781521502846
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"