This follow-up to Bouman's debut }Dry Bones In The Valley{ offers intelligent US rural crime with a touch of Cormac McCarthy. Officer Henry Farrell attempts to balance barn conversion work and personal trauma with a disappeared-person case an acquaintance stands accused of 'Fateful Mornings is a haunting dissection of the broken heart of America.' Val McDermidFor fans of James Lee Burke and Cormac McCarthy, Tom Bouman is the new must-read author exploring the outer darkness of contemporary America. In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, Officer Henry Farrell's life is getting complicated.