Rob Riggan Book Signing - "The Blackstone Chronicles" October 18, 2007

The Blackstone Commentaries is the new novel by Rob Riggan. When Charlie Dugan, tough but fair-minded sheriff of Blackstone County in western North Carolina, receives a call to investigate a shooting one night, what he finds is a family whose car has been shot up in an apparent case of mistaken identity. What he also learns is that the driver of the vehicle from which the shots were fired may have been “Doc” Pemberton, wild but popular surgeon, county commissioner, and member of an old politically powerful family. It was Pemberton who, years before, procured Dugan his first job in the county, as a deputy, and later urged him to run for sheriff. The two have always had a wary respect for each other, as they used each other for their mutual political ends. What follows is a journey through the intricacies of law enforcement and the courts of a rich, passionate culture struggling to channel its own violent proclivities, and to assert the dignity of its parts and their right to exist.

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