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All the Sinners Bleed

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All the Sinners Bleed

Written by: S. A. Cosby
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
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Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense!

Nominated, Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominee, 2024

Long-listed, Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year 2023

Long-listed, Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2023

Long-listed, Carnegie Medal, 2024

Long-listed, Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2023

Long-listed, New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, 2023

Long-listed, Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, 2023

Long-listed, New York Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2023

Long-listed, CPL: Chicago Public Library Best of the Best, 2023

"Lazarre-White masterfully portrays people of multiple races, old and young. He also delivers Cosby's reflections on family, grief, and faith with genuine introspection and without distracting from the tense plotlines...This is a gripping, timely tale—beautifully told."—AudioFile (Earphones Award winner)

The new novel from New York Times bestselling and Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author S. A. Cosby, "one of the most muscular, distinctive, grab-you-by-both-ears voices in American crime fiction.”—The Washington Post.

A Black sheriff. A serial killer.

A small town ready to combust.

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.

Powerful and unforgettable, All the Sinners Bleed confirms S. A. Cosby as “one of the most muscular, distinctive, grab-you-by-both-ears voices in American crime fiction” (The Washington Post).

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

©2023 S. A. Cosby (P)2023 Macmillan Audio Black Creators Crime Crime Thrillers Genre Fiction Mystery Thriller & Suspense World Literature Thriller Fiction Murder Scary Suspense
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A well-narrated and gripping murder mystery - while not for the faint of heart, I would recommend it for anyone who likes a good whodunit or southern gothic

Horrific, topical, and highly entertaining

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Narration was perfect. Best all round book I have read in a long time. Right up there with John Grisham.

Excellent

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This was one of the best mysteries I’ve had the pleasure of listening to. Most books of this genre written in the last 30 years or so have disappointed. So many things (racism and micro aggression) were explained brilliantly. The family dynamic was relatable as was the loss of the main characters mother. I especially enjoyed the southern accents and could easily differentiate between the 2 races.
You will not be disappointed.

LOVED this!

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I went in basically blind—just knew the author had a strong rep and that this book had been floating on my TBR for a while. What I got was a gripping, emotionally complex crime novel with social commentary that hits harder than most nonfiction ever could.

I listened to the audiobook, and let me just say: the narrator is phenomenal. I could’ve listened to him read the back of a cereal box. His delivery brought so much texture to the story and the setting, especially with characters like Albert (an absolute riot) and Mrs. Gilby, who had some of the best one-liners I’ve ever heard.

Titus Crown—our Black sheriff in a deeply Southern town—is one of the most layered protagonists I’ve read in a long time. His OCD, his relationship with faith, his trauma, his constant inner push-pull between doing what’s right and doing what’s expected—it’s all so real. The quote that stuck with me? “He promised he was going to be a sheriff that was Black, not the Black community’s sheriff.” That line alone sums up so much of the tension in the book.

There’s a lot happening politically, emotionally, and culturally, and Cosby weaves it all together with precision. From neo-Confederates to corrupt reverends, statues coming down, and long-standing racist power structures being threatened—the stakes feel real without ever becoming performative. And the way Cosby captures Southern contradictions? Chef’s kiss. My favorite line: “It occurred to him that no place was more confused about its past, or scared of its future, than the South.”

Also—shoutout to the pacing. The chapters are long, but the tension never drops. When it ramps up, especially during the raid scenes? I was fully holding my breath. And the ending? Clean, earned, and satisfying without dragging things out.

This is the kind of book that hits you in the gut and then makes you want to hand it to everyone you know. A must-read if you like your crime fiction thoughtful, fearless, and rooted in real-world nuance.

This was my first S.A. Cosby and definitely not my last.

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Could stop listening. Great story and the narrator brought to life the words and feelings of the strong characters. Recommend it.

Everything was done brilliantly

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