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Ken Jaworowski’s Small Town Sins is a gripping Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing their troubled pasts and the crimes that could cost them their lives.

In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a former coal and steel town whose best days seem long past, five thousand…

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1 author picked Small Town Sins as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This was an amazing book. When you think something could not get any worse for a person it does, and then again and again, and in the cruelest way. Sometimes no fault of their own, but just the right circumstances for bad luck. What happens to small town people in small towns is sometimes NEVER small. I could not help but laugh at people's bad luck, others I felt overwhelming anxiety for them.

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