On the gray fedora parked in front of him, he was tapping a rhythm out of time with the tune coming from the jukebox, Glenn Miller's "At Your Beck and Call"--a song he had perhaps composed or was just composing and which only he could hear.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

A Savage Wisdom

Toni Jo Henry
A Savage Wisdom, a novel by Norman German, is an imaginative reconstruction of the life of Toni Jo Henry, the only woman executed in Louisiana’s electric chair, for the 1940 Valentine’s Day slaying of a Houston businessman. 

In a meticulous review in Lagniappe, Brad Goins states that the novel is hardly over after Toni Jo's execution. The final section “shows how the actions of Toni Jo affect at least two subsequent generations. This part has the wildest plot twists I’ve encountered in fiction (and that’s coming from somebody who’s read lots of Balzac and Ed Lee).” Goins concludes his analysis, “Every two or three years, a work of exceptional literary merit comes out of Louisiana. This is one of the select group.”


In early September, A Savage Wisdom reached a #5 rank in the competitive Kindle category of True Crime:Murder & Mayhem. To read more about this gripping thriller:
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