“Literary thrillers just don’t come any better than Ron Currie’s The Savage Noble Death of
Babs Dionne . It’s profoundly serious and terrifying in equal measure.” –Richard Russo
Pulitzer Prize winning author of Somebody's Fool A mythic propulsive novel about the tangled
fates of a matriarchal crime family in Maine. Your ancestors breathe through you. Sometimes
they call for vengeance. Babs Dionne proud Franco-American doting grandmother and
vicious crime matriarch rules her small town of Waterville Maine with an iron fist. She
controls the flow of drugs into Little Canada with the help of her loyal lieutenants
girlfriends since they were teenagers and her eldest daughter Lori a Marine vet struggling
with addiction. When a drug kingpin discovers that his numbers are down in the upper northeast
he sends a malevolent force known only as The Man to investigate. At the same time Babs's
youngest daughter Sis has gone missing which doesn't seem at all like a coincidence. In
twenty-four hours Sis will be found dead and the whole town will seek shelter from Babs’s
wrath. The Savage Noble Death of Babs Dionne is a crime saga like no other with a ferocious
matriarch at its bruised beating heart. With sharp wit and profound empathy award-winning
author Ron Currie delivers an unforgettable novel exploring love retribution and the
ancestral roots that both nurture and trap us.
