Review: All the Sinners Bleed

All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby This started promisingly. After an appropriately foreboding prologue steeped in Southern Gothic flavour, the stakes are set with reasonable swiftness. About a quarter of the way in, though, the book turned progressively sour for me. Make no mistake—Cosby can write a poetic turn of phrase, but he overdoes it to the point of parody. Every other sentence is a…