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Titus Crowne is the first black sheriff of Charon County, a county located in Indiana. Titus intends to make a difference and reform the county's notoriously racist police force. However, after a school shooting leaves beloved teacher Jeff Spearman dead and the shooter Latrell [=McDonald=] is killed by Titus's deputies, Titus discovers that the teacher had been the partner of a serial killer targeting black children. Titus must track down the killer, while dealing with the usual array of corrupt politicians, Confederate flag marchers, and black activists who view him as a CategoryTraitor.
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Titus Crowne is the first black sheriff of [[FictionalProvince Charon County, a county located in Indiana.County]], Virginia. Titus intends to make a difference and reform the county's notoriously racist police force. However, after a school shooting leaves beloved teacher Jeff Spearman dead and the shooter Latrell [=McDonald=] is killed by Titus's deputies, Titus discovers that the teacher had been the partner of a serial killer targeting black children. Titus must track down the killer, while dealing with the usual array of corrupt politicians, Confederate flag marchers, and black activists who view him as a CategoryTraitor.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Jeff Spearman is introduced as a corpse, but his legacy looms largemover the story.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Jeff Spearman is introduced as a corpse, but his legacy looms largemover large over the story.
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* SmallTownTyrant: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed.]] Titus notes how easy it can be for a sheriff to become one, and notes that many of his predecessors were, though he himself tries to avoid it.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Jeff Spearman and his accomplish tortured black children and murdered them, much to everyone's disgust.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Jeff Spearman and his accomplish accomplice tortured black children and murdered them, much to everyone's disgust.
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* DirtyCop: Tom Sadler is taking bribes from a local drug dealer to alert him to Titus's planned raids. Titus even speculates he killed Latrell because he knew about Tom's corruption.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Tom]].
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Titus Crowne is the first black sheriff of Charon County, a county located in Indiana. Titus intends to make a difference and reform the county's notoriously racist police force. However, after a school shooting leaves beloved teacher Jeff Spearman dead and the shooter Latrell Washington is killed by Titus's deputies, Titus discovers that the teacher had been the partner of a serial killer targeting black children. Titus must track down the killer, while dealing with the usual array of corrupt politicians, Confederate flag marchers, and black activists who view him as a CategoryTraitor.
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Titus Crowne is the first black sheriff of Charon County, a county located in Indiana. Titus intends to make a difference and reform the county's notoriously racist police force. However, after a school shooting leaves beloved teacher Jeff Spearman dead and the shooter Latrell Washington [=McDonald=] is killed by Titus's deputies, Titus discovers that the teacher had been the partner of a serial killer targeting black children. Titus must track down the killer, while dealing with the usual array of corrupt politicians, Confederate flag marchers, and black activists who view him as a CategoryTraitor.
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** [[spoiler:Elias Hillington]] has a wooden stake shoved up his rectum rectum, is crucified, is stabbed multiple times with a bowie knife, and is left to die in the hot sun.
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** [[spoiler:Elias]] is brutally murdered by the Last Wolf, but considering what a bigoted {{Jerkass}} he had been up to that point, it's difficult to feel sorry for him.
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* CategoryTraitor: Titus is viewed by some black residents - most notably Rev. Jamal Addison's conversation - as an Uncle Tom who turned on the black community by joining law enforcement. Titus doesn't blame them and respects their viewpoint, acknowledging that Charon County's police department fully deserves skepticism.
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Titus Crowne is the first black sheriff of Charon County, a county located in the American South.Indiana. Titus intends to make a difference and reform the county's notoriously racist police force. However, after a school shooting leaves beloved teacher Jeff Spearman dead and the shooter Latrell Washington is killed by Titus's deputies, Titus discovers that the teacher had been the partner of a serial killer targeting black children. Titus must track down the killer, while dealing with the usual array of corrupt politicians, Confederate flag marchers, and black activists who view him as a CategoryTraitor.
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--> '''Griselda Barry:''' He talks an awful lot about God and the Devil, but my mama always said the Devil can quote the good book as well as any angel. And Elias is as close to the Devil as I wanna get.
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* CorruptPolitican: Scott Cunningham and his family are prominent local politicians who are as inept as they are corrupt. Scott and Titus despise each other because Titus refuses to let Scott's corrupt behavior slide.
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''All the Sinners Bleed'' is a 2023 crime novel by S. A. Cosby.
Titus Crowne is the first black sheriff of Charon County, a county located in the American South. Titus intends to make a difference and reform the county's notoriously racist police force. However, after a school shooting leaves beloved teacher Jeff Spearman dead and the shooter Latrell Washington is killed by Titus's deputies, Titus discovers that the teacher had been the partner of a serial killer targeting black children. Titus must track down the killer, while dealing with the usual array of corrupt politicians, Confederate flag marchers, and black activists who view him as a CategoryTraitor.
!!List of tropes applying to this novel:
* AssholeVictim:
** Titus and the police department lose any sympathy for Jeff Spearman after it's discovered he was a serial killer who preyed on children.
** Latrell deconstructs this trope, as while Titus doesn't feel sympathetic towards him for having kept silent on Jeff and the Last Wolf's crimes, he still knows that as a black man shot by the police his death needs to be viewed objectively.
* CategoryTraitor: Titus is viewed by some black residents - most notably Rev. Jamal Addison's conversation - as an Uncle Tom who turned on the black community by joining law enforcement. Titus doesn't blame them and respects their viewpoint, acknowledging that Charon County's police department fully deserves skepticism.
* CorruptPolitican: Scott Cunningham and his family are prominent local politicians who are as inept as they are corrupt. Scott and Titus despise each other because Titus refuses to let Scott's corrupt behavior slide.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Titus is tormented by guilt over having failed to save a white supremacist's family from their patriarch, who killed them all in a bombing.
* PosthumousCharacter: Jeff Spearman is introduced as a corpse, but his legacy looms largemover the story.
* TheRedBaron: Titus nicknames Spearman's unknown accomplice the Last Wolf based on his wolf mask.
* SuicideByCop: Latrell [[AmbiguousSituation possibly]] deliberately provokes Titus's deputies into shooting.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Jeff Spearman was beloved by Charon County's residents, but in secret he was a vicious serial killer who preyed on and tortured black children.
* WouldHurtAChild: Jeff Spearman and his accomplish tortured black children and murdered them, much to everyone's disgust.
''All the Sinners Bleed'' is a 2023 crime novel by S. A. Cosby.
Titus Crowne is the first black sheriff of Charon County, a county located in the American South. Titus intends to make a difference and reform the county's notoriously racist police force. However, after a school shooting leaves beloved teacher Jeff Spearman dead and the shooter Latrell Washington is killed by Titus's deputies, Titus discovers that the teacher had been the partner of a serial killer targeting black children. Titus must track down the killer, while dealing with the usual array of corrupt politicians, Confederate flag marchers, and black activists who view him as a CategoryTraitor.
!!List of tropes applying to this novel:
* AssholeVictim:
** Titus and the police department lose any sympathy for Jeff Spearman after it's discovered he was a serial killer who preyed on children.
** Latrell deconstructs this trope, as while Titus doesn't feel sympathetic towards him for having kept silent on Jeff and the Last Wolf's crimes, he still knows that as a black man shot by the police his death needs to be viewed objectively.
* CategoryTraitor: Titus is viewed by some black residents - most notably Rev. Jamal Addison's conversation - as an Uncle Tom who turned on the black community by joining law enforcement. Titus doesn't blame them and respects their viewpoint, acknowledging that Charon County's police department fully deserves skepticism.
* CorruptPolitican: Scott Cunningham and his family are prominent local politicians who are as inept as they are corrupt. Scott and Titus despise each other because Titus refuses to let Scott's corrupt behavior slide.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Titus is tormented by guilt over having failed to save a white supremacist's family from their patriarch, who killed them all in a bombing.
* PosthumousCharacter: Jeff Spearman is introduced as a corpse, but his legacy looms largemover the story.
* TheRedBaron: Titus nicknames Spearman's unknown accomplice the Last Wolf based on his wolf mask.
* SuicideByCop: Latrell [[AmbiguousSituation possibly]] deliberately provokes Titus's deputies into shooting.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Jeff Spearman was beloved by Charon County's residents, but in secret he was a vicious serial killer who preyed on and tortured black children.
* WouldHurtAChild: Jeff Spearman and his accomplish tortured black children and murdered them, much to everyone's disgust.
