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Home Grown

Name: Home Grown
Author: Hammon, Ninie
ISBN: 9780979903564

by Hammon, Ninie

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Overview

When Sarabeth Bingham’s father is murdered, she leaves the LA Times to take over his weekly newspaper in central Kentucky and discovers that marijuana growing has corrupted the idyllic little community where she grew up. The Christian sheriff can’t get a marijuana conviction because the county’s jury pool is tainted. Her cousin grows weed and has lost his daughter to the world of drugs. After three children find dope money in an abandoned building and the dopers kidnap them to get it back, Sarabeth heeds the words on a plaque above her father’s desk: Don’t mess with a man who buys ink by the barrel.The next issue of the newspaper carries a front-page editorial designed to move its readers to action. The newspaper has declared war on dope, and the growers have to shut Sarabeth up--and dopers fight dirty.

About the Author, Hammon, Ninie

Ninie Hammon is the consummate storyteller. Her first book, the biography God Said Yes, was published by Penguin’s Berkeley imprint and highlighted her gift for weaving facts into a gripping human-interest saga. She draws on the stories from her twenty-five-year career as a journalist to fuel her novels. As an investigative reporter in the 1980s, she helped break the story of the Corn Bread Mafia—the largest domestic marijuana-producing cooperative in American history. The founder of a 65,000-readership newspaper, she served as its publisher for a decade and enjoys a large fan base in the Southeast.