It’s my stop on the book tour for Adonias Low by D.A. Watson. Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and the author for my copy of the book to take part today.
Murder. Robbery. Kidnapping.
Welcome to Napa Valley, California, 1891.
To lawmen and bad men alike, The Low Man is a ghost story. The most feared bounty hunter to ever walk the territories. Whispered to be a Native American shapeshifter, a renegade Pinkerton detective, or the Bible quoting son of a mad preacher. No one knows for sure. He’s a spectre outlaws scare each other with around campfires.
Adonias Lowe lives in the highlands of Napa Valley with his children, scratching a hard living as a farmer and occasional wagon guard. When a wealthy gin baron hires him to see a valuable shipment safely to San Francisco, the opportunity comes just in time to keep the family afloat.
But when the job turns into a massacre and his daughter is abducted by a deviant killer, Adonias is forced into a violent reckoning that will awaken a darkness he’s long tried to bury.
As the corpses mount up, a dying sheriff tries to make sense of the madness, scalp hunters saddle up and ride for blood, fame and riches, and the local Wailaki are coming down from the hills, singing war songs of the Lost White Brother.
Welcome to Napa Valley, California. Where fruit grows thick on the vine, and blood runs deep.
I don’t read many books in the western genre, but whenever I do, I always enjoy them. Whether that means I just chose well or should read more Westerns, I don’t know. All I know is Adonias Low definitely kept me busy.
Adonias Lowe is a family man, first and foremost. He takes a job that he thinks will keep his family’s head above water for a while. The job goes drastically wrong, and his daughter is abducted by a twisted killer. Adonias Lowe is just attempting to look after his family; what he faces to do this will chill you to the bone.
This is a book that doesn’t hold back with the details at all. On one hand, it’s a story of a father looking after his family, which makes it quite sweet,then there is the violence. There is one thing that this book has no shortage of, and that’s action: plenty of it along with the brutal details.
The characters are all well written, and all have unique voices that play their part throughout this book. I was at Adonias Lowe’s side as I read this book. It definitely managed to keep me interested in what would happen next. I just kept reading one chapter more until I was finished.
A book that piqued my interest with the cover and synopsis and I am very happy I accepted the invitation as I have now…again, discovered another new author. Maybe you will too if you give this book a try.
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Author Bio
D.A. Watson is the author of four horror novels and the fiction and poetry collection, Tales of the What the Fuck.
His stories, verse and articles have appeared in several anthologies and collections and have won gongs and acclaim from Greenock to Dunedin, including nominations for a Pushcart Prize in the US and the UK People’s Book Prize.
An occasional poetry performer, he also appeared on the main stage of the Burnsfest Festival in 2018 as the warm up act for the one and only Chesney Hawkes, a personal milestone and career highlight.
He lives with his family on the west coast of Scotland and is still telling stories.
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