A review by rocknrollbookshelf
Moonlit Massacre by JAMES. COOPER

5.0

Moonlit Massacre can be summed up with a line from one of the protagonists: “Can a place be forgiven?” But what is a place if not the people there? If a place needs forgiveness, how can we affect change in order to atone? Cooper’s book is a portrait of a moment in time as Oklahoma City found itself caught between its Wild West past and an uncertain future, with obscurity, notoriety, and redemption all on the table, the characters dizzied by those options while grappling with a bloody crime streak. Moonlit Massacre is a contemplative, immersive, poetic, and deeply researched work of fiction that will haunt you.