Death in Mud Lick Reading Guide & Discussion Questions

Book Club Discussion Questions

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For supplemental discussion material see our Beyond the Book article, Federal Raid on Mingo County, West Virginia and our BookBrowse Review of Death in Mud Lick.

Please be aware that this discussion guide will contain spoilers!

1. Author Eric Eyre packs his book with a fair amount of statistical data; nonetheless, or perhaps because of the data, Death in Mud Lick is shocking. What numbers stunned you most?
2. Discuss the role Debbie Preece played in cracking open this tragedy by initiating a wrongful-death lawsuit. Would you have had the courage or tenacity or energy she had? Consider, too, the doggedness of Eric Eyre, who, while investigating the roots of the opioid epidemic, was suffering from the onset of Parkinson's Disease.

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