{"product_id":"2940012182890","title":"A Fine Last Day and a Nightmare Dusk","description":"Reba Wainright attracts men like boys attract trouble.  Her smile puts a warm glow Reba Wainright attracts men like boys attract trouble.  Her smile puts a warm glow in their soul.  Her hair is red silk, as it brushes over an arm or a face making the flesh tingle.  Her skin is cream just separated -- warm and rich and welcoming.  It's a body she's proud of, a body that can get the man she wants.  Her prey is the men of power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut now she's dead.  Shot in the head by a stranger. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe setting of A Fine Last Day and a Nightmare Dusk is 1894 Warren, Indiana, a manufacturing town on the Ohio River proud of its sophistication, with gas lamps and macadam streets, women in taffeta dresses, men in gabardine suits, the poor in whatever they find, and the hypocrisy of late Victorian-era puritanism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe perspective of the story is Reba's spirit.  The world through her eyes reflects her own nature: everybody wants something.  She is candid, course, and opinionated.  But the more she tells you, the more overpowering she becomes.  Reba speaks to the living through Eli Jackson.  The dead voices in his head have driven him to whiskey, opium, and whores. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver several months, Reba leads us through the investigation of her death, while she shines a light into the dark corners of her life through flashbacks.  Reba's childhood was the poverty of post-Civil War mid 19th Century.  As American society evolves after the Civil War, an intelligent and determined woman like Reba is finally able to come into her own.  Abuses to body and soul ultimately, inevitably drive her to become the woman we see in 1894.  She seduces and manipulates for money and power without emotion.  Privately, she shares a forbidden and passionate love for one man, a black man training to be an AME minister, her refuge from life since she was fifteen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe entertainment industry has a fascination for spirits and mediums, tales in which couples are united, a heart is softened, or the spirit finds 'the light.' A Fine Last Day and a Nightmare Dusk suffers Reba's nature.  It is dark, disturbed, and graphic.  The characters in in this novel receive what they earn, good, bad, sometimes violent, including the darkness for Reba when her quest is over.  A Fine Last Day and a Nightmare Dusk is a murder mystery, but more importantly, it is Reba, fierce and fiery.","brand":"Timothy Christenson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069074456816,"sku":"2940012182890","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012182890_p0.jpg?v=1763553076","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012182890","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}