Book description
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.
