Brunch and Books

Join us for a delightful morning of Coffee & Books at our Brunch and Books meetup! This month, we will be discussing "All the Sinners Bleed" by S.A. Crosby.

To celebrate our one-year anniversary (actually, it's in August), we thought we'd do something fun: a book exchange! If you would like to participate, please bring a new or very gently used wrapped book. We'll do a polyanna-style exchange. No big deal if you don't care to participate; please still come.

**We'll be picking our October read at this meeting; please bring your suggestions. While we don't usually pick a theme, since one of our members (Lauren) is getting married in October, we thought we'd do a wedding or love theme pick for the month.

Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, quiet Charon has had only two murders. But after years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface.
Then a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student and the student is fatally shot by Titus’s deputies. As Titus investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes and a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon.
With the killer’s possible connections to a local church and the town’s harrowing history weighing on him, Titus projects confidence about closing the case while concealing a painful secret from his own past. At the same time, he also has to contend with a far-right group that wants to hold a parade in celebration of the town’s Confederate history.
Charon is Titus’s home and his heart. But where faith and violence meet, there will be a reckoning.