Season of the Snake - Hardcover

Advance Praise for "Season of the Snake""A suspenseful and heartbreaking meditation on the nature of fate, family, sex, death, and our individual misuses of love. Truly a thrilling novel."---Mark Spragg, author of "An Unfinished Life", "The Fruit of Stone", and "Where Rivers Change Direction""Claire Davis's new novel is a psychological thriller written with an almost Proustian sense of detail. It would not surprise me if Season of the Snake turns out to be this year's Mystic River, that rare book that manages to be both a huge literary and popular success."---"Steve Yarbrough", author of "Prisoners of War" and "The Oxygen Man""In Claire Davis's chilling new novel, predators wear the colors of their surroundings and only the undeceived survive. A tough, smart story given in uncommonly vibrant and muscular language. Season of the Snake reconfirms her place in the first rank of voices from the American West."-David Long, author of "The Falling Boy""Like a coiled diamondback, Claire Davis's "Season of the Snake" grabs your attention and doesn't let go. The only time I put it down was to get up and lock the doors."---Judy Blunt, author of "Breaking Clean"

Years after the tragic death of her first husband, Nance Able remarries and begins a new life in the West with Ned, a school principal whose quiet charm lulls her to contentment. A scientist tracking rattlesnakes in the wilderness of Hell's Canyon, Idaho, Nance courts natural dangers-believing that conquering such risk will protect her from further grief. But at home, she is unaware that her husband's secret proclivities are emerging. When Nance's younger, errant sister Meredith moves to town, Ned can no longer suppress the terrifying mysteries of his past, and the sisters must find the strength together to survive his love.