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Terry Roberts is the author of five celebrated novels:A Short Time to Stay Here(winner of the Willie Morris Prize for Southern Fiction and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction);That Bright Land(winner of the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award, the James Still Award for Writing About the Appalachian South and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction);The Holy Ghost Speakeasy and Revival(Finalist for the 2019 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction);My Mistress' Eyes are Raven BlackFinalist for the 2022 Best Paperback Original Novel by the International Thriller Writers Organization); and most recently,The Sky Club, released in July of 2022. Roberts is a lifelong teacher and educational reformer as well as an award-winning novelist. He is a native of the mountains of Western North Carolina-born and bred. His ancestors include six generations of mountain farmers, as well as the bootleggers and preachers who appear in his novels. He was raised close by his grandmother, Belva Anderson Roberts, who was born in 1888 and passed to him the magic of the past along with the grit and humor of mountain story telling. Roberts is the Director of the National Paideia Center and lives in Asheville, North Carolinawith his wife, Lynn.
“Terry Roberts has crafted another classic noir mystery rich with sensory details, brisk pacing, crackling dialogue, and escalating tension. I tore through the pages of this newest Stephen Robbins novel, completely immersed in the atmospheric details of Jazz Age-Asheville as our hero investigates a murder at the Grove Park Inn. Robbins faces his biggest challenge yet, especially when wealthy society leaders are more interested in wrapping up the case than finding real answers. The Devil Hath a Pleasing Shape swept me along so powerfully that I became just as desperate as Robbins to see justice prevail.” —Heather Bell Adams, author of Maranatha Road and The Good Luck Stone “Terry Roberts delivers with another novel about hard-boiled detective Stephen Robbins. You’ll be enthralled as Robbins uncovers a killer, and left thinking as the novel explores privilege, power, corruption, racism, and the cost of redemption. The historical setting may be illustrious, but everyone’s morals are in question.” —Leslie Logemann, Highland Books, Brevard, NC
