Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery Audiobook

Quotes

• “Beautifully captures the devastation of the land and people in the Dust Bowl.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Loewenstein’s sensitive treatment of these dark days in the Dust Bowl era offers little humor but a whole lot of compassion.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Laurie Loewenstein’s vivid Death of a Rainmaker is at once an engrossing yarn, an elegant inquiry into human desperation, and a portrait of Depression-era America so searingly authentic that the topsoil practically blows off each page.”

  — Louis Bayard, author of The Pale Blue Eye

• “Reading Death of a Rainmaker is like slipping through time right into a 1930s black-and-white movie…Laurie Loewenstein has a knack for writing the early twentieth century. I sure hope this is a series, because I’m smitten.”

  — Robin Oliveira, author of The Winter Sisters

• “Laurie Loewenstein takes your breath away. Her haunting and vivid prose deftly describes the opening chords of a dust storm that left families sick with dust pneumonia or dead broke. In this gripping tale of a sheriff searching for a killer in a dying town, Loewenstein rounds up characters with true grit, cunning, and kindness.”

  — Mary Kay Zuravleff, author of Man Alive!

• “A jewel of a novel. The scenes and characters are so vivid and alive that you forget that the Internet and interstate roads haven’t been around forever. Loewenstein is a born storyteller who writes scholarly based page-turners…It’s a read you won’t forget.”

  — John Bowers, author of Love in Tennessee