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All the Sinners Bleed

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • USA Today Bestseller • Washington Post’s The Twelve Best Thrillers of the Year • TIME’s 100 Must Read Books of the Year • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee • USA Today’s Best Reviewed Books of the Year • BookPage's Best Mystery of the Year • Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year • New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • Cover of the New York Times Book Review • Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List • The Financial Times’s Best Crime Books of the Year • ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Longlist • SIBA’s 2024 Southern Book Prize Finalist • Starred Publishers Weekly • Starred Library Journal • Starred BookPage • Starred Booklist
“Fresh and exhilarating. . . Cosby keeps his eye on the story and the pedal to the metal.” —Stephen King, The
New York Times Book Review

A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust.

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.” —Washington Post.

“An atmospheric pressure cooker.” —People

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).

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Published Jul 9, 2024

352 pages

Average rating: 7.92

451 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

J_Ortiz01
Apr 25, 2025
8/10 stars
Love the plot! Good buildup and detective work 🥳
ediehas
Feb 28, 2025
6/10 stars
received this in a goodreads giveaway. definitely a page turner and kept me engaged, but felt this was a lesser novel to cosby's previous two, which i really loved. while a lot of it is unfortunately realistic in these heightened political times, it still felt a bit over the top and too gory for how casual the town responded to everything. still will be super excited when the next cosby book drops though !
Anonymous
Jan 14, 2025
10/10 stars
All the Sinners Bleed reads like an episode of Criminal Minds. The serial murders are extremely disturbing, the characters complex and the writing is deep. I don't think this book is for everyone but it will stick with me for awhile.
Anonymous
Dec 11, 2024
10/10 stars
Oh this was a good mystery! I loved the relationship of father to son and the protagonists wisdom. Kept me going and interested throughout the story.
Ashku7
Nov 30, 2024
10/10 stars
4.5 Stars
You can't go wrong with a well written mystery.

Oh, and that ending was

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