Oscar Patton

A Satilla County Novel

1 - The Sheriff (Dec-2014)
2 - The Doctor (Nov-2015)
3 - Serpent in the Pines (Sep-2016)
4 - Rachel (Aug-2017)

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  When the Bough Breaks: Rockabye Baby
  

  • Apr-2012
  • / Literary
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  Love, hate, ambition, greed, lasciviousness-- human nature is laid bare in this story about the fall of the grandest house in Hebron,Georgia. Following the sudden death on the same night of her infant son and her rich and powerful husband, Ada McCall...

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  Riding the Fantastics
  

  • Feb-2013
  • / Action Adventure
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  Narrated in real time by characters in the drama, Riding the Fantastics is about the death and the life of Boy Man Hardin, last King of the Crackers in south Georgia's old herding culture. This is the second of Oscar Patton's Satilla County novels an...

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  A Place to Call Home
  

  • Nov-2013
  • / General Fiction
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  Young professor Oliver Hardin settles in at Georgia Southeastern College, happy to be back home in Satilla County: "Cock-a-doodle-do. This rooster has come home to roost. Bring your mugs, boys. The keg is iced down. The pork is on the pit. And the ch...

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  The Sheriff
  

  • Dec-2014
  • / Literary
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  A Satilla County Novel - 1
  

  This is a work of fiction inspired by a true story. Sheriff George Winters is caught in the middle of a long running feud between south Georgia neighbors. He senses the conflict is coming to a head, but he does not suspect nor can he imagine the horr...

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  The Doctor
  

  • Nov-2015
  • / Historical
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  A Satilla County Novel - 2
  

  Love, Hate, Redemption. . . Satilla County doctor Elias Lott must contend not only with the 1918-19 Spanish flu epidemic but also with ignorance, prejudice, and his own questions about love and faith. This is the fifth novel in the Satilla County ser...

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  Serpent in the Pines
  

  • Sep-2016
  • / Action Adventure
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  A Satilla County Novel - 3
  

  A way of life is threatened as the conflict between North and South rages on long after Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Combatants include a saw mill superintendent murdered in his home, a hot-headed but fair-minded sheriff who must bring the killer o...

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  Rachel
  

  • Aug-2017
  • / Action Adventure
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  A Satilla County Novel - 4
  

  With best friend Eve at her side, aspiring young journalist Rachel Mellon comes "home" to Satilla County to write the lives of southern women. She collides head-on with the Circle of Brothers, a gang of good old boys who control the illegal liquor bu...

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  Rachel's Search
  

  • Jul-2018
  • / Literary
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  What does the second coming of the Klan portend for Satilla County? Is it one more sign evil is winning? Setting out to find answers, a northern-born young journalist experiences life in the deep South, the struggle to survive for whites and blacks. ...

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