What happens when two ex-cons team up to avenge the brutal murder of their married sons?

S.A. Cosby will be here to talk about his new novel, Razor Blade Tears.

How do you hunt down a Victorian serial killer?

Dean Job will talk to my colleague Tina Jordan about his new book, The Case of the Murderous

Doctor Cream.

Elizabeth Harris joins us with news from the publishing world.

Plus our critics will join us for the latest in literary criticism.

This is the Bookerview Podcast for the New York Times.

It's July 16th.

I'm Pamela Paul.

S.A. Cosby joins us now from southeastern Virginia, Gloucester specifically.

He is the author of the new book, Razor Blade Tears, also Blacktop Wasteland and a few

other books.

Sean, thanks for being here.

Thank you so much for having me.

It's a pleasure.

So this is a spoiler free podcast.

I just want to say that up front because this is a book that is full of really unexpected

but well-earned plot twists.

Give us the premise of Razor Blade Tears.

Basically, Razor Blade Tears is a story of two fathers, one black, one white, both ex-cons,

whose sons are married and at the beginning of the book unfortunately these two sons are

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