Dog River Press has just released Coweta resident and author Sidney A. Brown’s last novel in the Mathew Duncan Trilogy.
The series features the old town of Campbellton, Ga., and its long-serving City Marshal, Mathew Duncan.
The Carnegie Library of Newnan recently hosted a Meet the Author event where numerous followers and readers gathered to listen to Brown’s presentation on the old ghost town of Campbellton.
Brown has appeared at multiple locations promoting the trilogy, including Barnes & Noble bookstore in Ashley Park.
While the novels are centered around Campbellton, the outlying towns of Fairburn, Palmetto and Newnan are used to place a realistic setting for the Southern-based historical fiction.
In the final novel, “Duncan’s Justice,” the Duncan family has moved to the Braswell home outside of Campbellton.
Matthew Duncan, the Marshal, is called out one a cold night to solve the murder of a local ferryman.
He and his young son trail the murderer to a psychic’s remote cabin where they barely escape with their lives in a hail of gunfire and roaring flames.
“The third and final installment of the Mathew Duncan Trilogy completes the journey of a Southern lawman trying to bring peace and justice to a small town in rural Georgia,” Paula Driscoll of San Tan Valley, Ariz., a retired Criminal Investigation Division secretary, said in her review. “The sense of history and family portrayed throughout the Duncan novels is wonderful and heartwarming…This is a fabulous read filled with love, humor and hardship, but most of all, justice.”
Myra Smith Wade of Douglas County, an avid reader of historical works and a genealogist, also gave a good review.
“Brown describes everything with such detail that you can almost feel the cool breeze, hear the crows in the trees, feel the tension in the air and see the events as they occur,” Wade said. “His research of this time period, its people, the way they lived and even what they had to eat, gives us a glimpse of what life was like for some of our Southern ancestors after the Civil War.”
The Mathew Duncan Trilogy is available in paperback through Amazon.com, or can be ordered through Barnes & Noble. Signed copies can be ordered through www.dogriverpress.com.
