The storyline of "Trestles Over Darkness" will stir every emotion within you, causing you to love some characters and to detest others. The setting is a small town in Louisiana following World War II, and the protagonist is a 12-year-old boy named JohnnyTobin who walks to a much different drumbeat than everyone else in the community. When a black family is murdered and few others seem to care, Johnny solicits the help of a reluctant Ben Jim Cade,...