Indiana Gothic - Softcover

'A dramatic, fast-paced story drawing its power from passion, hatred and murder ... [Pope Brock] reaches deep into the true darkness of human nature.'
Doris Betts, author of The Sharp Teeth of Love

If Brock's book has an ancestor, it is surely Truman Capote ... As pure courtroom drama Indiana Gothic is as good as it gets; as historical reconstruction, there has been none better. (Independent)

The Indiana landscape, open and lush, and its fitful climate that goes from heat and dust to icy rain in minutes provide the perfect atmosphere for this tale of feverish desire ... A wonderful read. (The Times)

'Indiana Gothic has unforgettable characters, great atmosphere, and it goes like a freight train.'
Nicholas Paleggi, author and screenplay writer (Wiseguy, Goodfellas and Casino)

Indiana Gothic is a brilliant fusion of In Cold Blood and The Bridges of Madison County ... To re-create a period, chart a plot or to attain emotional depth in the way this novel has would all be major achievements taken alone. To have them all is very special. (Independent on Sunday)

One of those stories that only the most brilliant and original of novelists could actually have dreamt up ... Brock beautifully weaves in carefully researched details of contemporary life. (Sunday Times)

Brock's account of the trial is a tour de force. Characters who have been fleshed out with a novelist's imagination step out of fiction and into the real world. (Daily Mail)

Reading like a novel, this is the biography of the author's great-grandmother and her sister who lived in a poor, pious farming community in Indiana at the turn of the last century. One sister falls in love with the other's husband, and this is the story of their increasingly reckless, ongoing affair and the inevitable denouement which follows.