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C. JOSEPH GREAVES
C. JOSEPH GREAVES is an honors graduate of both the University of Southern California and Boston College Law School who spent twenty-five years as an LA trial lawyer before becoming a novelist. Sometimes writing as Chuck Greaves, he has been a finalist for many of the top awards in crime fiction including the Shamus, Macavity, Lefty, and Audie, as well as the New Mexico-Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado Book Awards. He is the author of five previous novels, most recently Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo), which was a Wall Street Journal “Best Books of 2015” selection and a finalist for the 2016 Harper Lee Prize. He is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the book critic for the Four Corners Free Press newspaper in southwestern Colorado, where he lives and writes.
BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
CHURCH OF THE GRAVEYARD SAINTS
A Novel
You can never go home again. Whether as caution or lament, the adage meant nothing to Addie Decker because when she left the rural Southwest for college in Los Angeles, she vowed never to return. But when her grandmother’s death calls Addie back, she confronts a landscape both familiar and foreign as a sudden boom in gas development threatens her family’s ranching heritage even as it promises vital prosperity to her old hometown. With her lover in tow, her high school sweetheart in waiting, and a sagebrush militia lurking in the wings, Addie must learn difficult lessons about loyalty and family while navigating a minefield of greed and obstinacy, love and violence.
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“The landscape looms large in this contemplative novel . . . with both passion and compassion [Greaves takes] readers on a lyrical, vivid tour of the West.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY