An excellent first novel.

I’d never heard of Allen Eskens until this book was recommended to me.

He has a journalism degree from the University of Minnesota and a law degree from Hamline University. 

The Life We Bury (2014) won awards.

First it was rejected by 150 agents.

… a mystery/coming-of-age novel about college student Joe Talbert, who, for a class assignment, interviews Carl Iverson, a dying, incarcerated Vietnam vet convicted of murder

… only to uncover a complex, decades-old crime, all while juggling his own volatile family life and guilt over his autistic brother, Jeremy, leading to shocking truths about justice, lies, and heroism. …

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Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Eskens is an interesting guy.