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Reading Funeral Train feels like being catapulted back in time to experience the 1930s at an almost unbearably visceral level.\" --New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Loewenstein handles the investigatory details well enough, but the book's richer rewards are its finely rendered portraits of small-town life under trying circumstances. She creates a vivid cast of gossips and cranks, loners and busy bodies. Some are lovable, some are not. All are connected to the secrets that lie just beneath the surface of the town's dusty streets.\" --Washington Post, one of \"Five New Thrillers to Kick Off Your Fall Reading\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Already suffering the privations of the 1930s Dust Bowl, an Oklahoma town is further devastated when a passenger train derails--flooding its hospital with the dead and maimed. Among the seriously wounded is Etha, wife of Sheriff Temple Jennings. 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