SINS OF THE MOTHER
A Caitlin Bergman Novel
SINS OF THE MOTHER
book two
August Norman’s second Caitlin Bergman thriller, SINS OF THE MOTHER, was released by Crooked Lane Books in September 2020.
August Norman returns with the second thrilling Caitlin Bergman novel, perfect for fans of Julia Keller, Tess Gerritsen, and Michael Koryta.
Caitlin went in search of her mother…but what she found may set the world on fire.
Caitlin Bergman’s mother is dead. That’s what the award-winning journalist has told everyone for the past forty years. Easier to lie than explain how Maya abandoned her only daughter before dropping off the map forever.
But when a rural sheriff invites Caitlin to the woods of coastal Oregon to identify her mother’s remains, Caitlin drops everything to face the woman she’s spent a lifetime hating. Unfortunately, the body–abandoned on the land of a reclusive cult, the Daughters of God–was left faceless. Instead, Caitlin finds the diary of a woman obsessed with the end of the world, one that hints the cult’s spiritual leader knows the identity of Caitlin’s real father. She’s not the only one looking for clues in her mother’s writing. Johnny Larsen, a violent white supremacist whose family runs the county, thinks the Daughters of God kidnapped his teen-aged daughter–and will do anything to get her back.
At the top of a hill, an army of women wait for the end of days. In the town below, the Larsens plot to purify their county. Caught in the middle, Caitlin must decide which is more important–learning the truth about her past, or saving Mama Maya’s chosen daughters from the end of the world.
THE SETTINGS
Coos County, Oregon
While Sins of the Mother is an original fictional work, the story is predominantly set in the very real county of Coos County, Oregon, and the towns of Coos Bay, North Bend, Bandon, and Coquille. Located in southern coastal Oregon, Caitlin’s birth mother has spent twenty years of her life in the woods above Coquille.
Los Angeles, California
Caitlin grew up the adopted daughter of mostly single LAPD officer, Matthew Bergman. After twenty years as an investigative reporter, Caitlin feels safer on the gum-covered streets of Hollywood than alone in primeval forest. Lakshmi Anjale, a twenty-two year old transplant, by way of Indiana, Connecticut, and Birmingham, England, is unhappy at her position at NPR and desperate to follow in Caitlin’s footsteps.
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