Book description
A year or so has passed since the events of Cypress Grove.
Ex-policeman, ex-con, former therapist, Turner has become Deputy
Sheriff in the small town within driving distance of Memphis,
Tennessee, to which he had migrated in hopes of escaping his past. His
life is mending as he and Val Bjorn grow closer. And then a young man,
arrested on a routine traffic stop with more than 0,000 in his trunk,
is forcibly sprung from jail after Sheriff Don Lee is brutally
assaulted. Throwing caution aside, Turner goes in pursuit to Memphis,
unleashing ghosts he thought he had left behind, and endangering all
that matters to him now. The second part of James Sallis'much lauded
Turner trilogy of crime novels. 'The brooding atmosphere and depth of
characterisation mark this as superior'- Mail on Sunday
