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CROOKED LETTER, CROOKED LETTER

Tom Franklin

Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize 2010 in the Crime/Mystery category.
Shortlisted for the UK Golden Dagger Award 2011.
Edgar Allen Poe Award 2011.

Silas Jones is the sole law enforcement officer in tiny Amos, Mississippi. It's a quiet town. The last excitement there was nearly twenty years ago, when a teenage girl disappeared on a date with Larry Ott. The law couldn't prove him guilty, but the whole town has shunned him ever since, and his life has been in shambles.

The town's peace is shattered when someone tries to kill the reclusive Ott, another young woman goes missing, and the town's drug dealer is murdered.

Woven through the tautly written murder story is the unspoken secret that hangs over the lives of two boys - one black, one white. A secret that will surprise Larry Ott and Silas Jones as the novel unfolds.

CROOKED LETTER, CROOKED LETTER is a brilliant follow-up to Tom Franklin's debut novel, Hell at the Breech.

KRUMME TYPE, KRUMME TYPE
Deutsch von Nikolaus Stingl
[PB Pulp Master 07/18]

Available products
Book Published 2009-10-01 by William Morrow

Comments

France: Albin Michel; UK: Macmillan; Italy: Piemme; Taiwan: Ten Points; Japan: Hayakawa; People's Republic of China: Beijing Book Publishing: Turkey: Pozitif; Danmark: Klim Publishers; Korea: Random House Korea; Croatia: Znanje;

The classic trifecta of talent, heart, and a bone-deep sense of storytelling .A masterful performance, deftly rendered and deeply satisfying. For days on end, I woke with this story on my mind. David Wroblewski

A new Tom Franklin novel is always a reason to get excited, but Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is morea cause for celebration. What a great novel by a great novelist. Dennis Lehane