Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Amos, Mississippi, is a quiet town. Silas Jones is its sole law enforcement officer. The last excitement here was nearly twenty years ago, when a teenage girl disappeared on a date with Larry Ott, Silas's one-time boyhood friend. The law couldn't prove Larry guilty, but the whole town has shunned him ever since.
Then 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 men - one black, one white
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is a masterful crime novel, sizzling with deep Southern menace, and distinguished by brilliant plotting and unforgettable characters.
Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Tom Franklin teaches in the University of Mississippi's MFA programme and lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, the poet Beth Ann Fennelly, and their children.
Author: Tom Franklin
Format: Paperback, 336 pages, 131mm x 196mm, 245 g
Published: 2011, Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Interest Age: From 18 years
Amos, Mississippi, is a quiet town. Silas Jones is its sole law enforcement officer. The last excitement here was nearly twenty years ago, when a teenage girl disappeared on a date with Larry Ott, Silas's one-time boyhood friend. The law couldn't prove Larry guilty, but the whole town has shunned him ever since.
Then 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 men - one black, one white
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is a masterful crime novel, sizzling with deep Southern menace, and distinguished by brilliant plotting and unforgettable characters.
Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Tom Franklin teaches in the University of Mississippi's MFA programme and lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, the poet Beth Ann Fennelly, and their children.