Gary Gusick
ASIN: B008GO977Y
Publisher: Benoit Press
Pages: 345
Sam Coombs, an elderly Jewish man is confined to a nursing home in the Mississippi Delta, where he is steadily losing his mind. However, it’s what Coombs can’t forget that causes him to suffer, and he cries out in his dementia for understanding.Beautiful young researcher Lou Ann Jenkins is touched by the old man’s pain and contacts David Pearlstein, a young rabbi visiting from Israel. A from-other -worlds romance develops as the southern belle and the free spirited Harley riding rabbi join forces to uncover the source of Coombs’ suffering. The two amateur sleuths quickly discover that Coombs is hiding a 30-year-old secret that could reopen one of the most heinous racial murder cases in the history of Mississippi.As Lou Ann and the rabbi struggle to decode Coombs’ fading memory, and unearth his secret they are met with opposition on all sides – from a corrupt nursing home operator ...