Slaughter by Marcus F. Griffin

If E.B. White and Roald Dahl wrote an adult novel together, it might end up looking something like Slaughter by Marcus F. Griffin.

It’s 1941 and the rural farms of Indiana and Kentucky are abuzz with the story of Slaughter, the colt favored to win the Kentucky Derby — perhaps even the Triple Crown. But to down-on-his-luck farmer Harold, Slaughter’s race is more. To begin with, it’ll decide whether he keeps his farm or loses it to the bank. There’s a lot more going on at the farm than Slaughter’s race though. Two entwined tales of personal spirals into madness are linked into one novel about how the past – and lives around us we often don’t even see – haunt us…Read the full review at Dark Scribe Magazine.