One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011.
One of those American Deep South crime novels that wreaks of menace with strong issues and lots of atmosphere, bigotry and sense of place. It alternates between past and present, black and white, very cleverly done.
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger 2011.
CWA Judges’ comments: 'Larry and Silas, white and black, boyhood friends in rural Mississippi thirty years ago, are separated by an apparent crime that changes their lives. A poignant suspense novel drenched in the languid atmosphere of small-town Mississippi where police investigate the murder of a local teenage girl. The novel explores fractured friendships and families as the legacy of racism, poverty, loneliness and misplaced suspicion from decades back.'
You can bury the past but it always seems to come back, one way or another . . . A gripping Southern Gothic murder mystery, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the YearAmos, Mississippi, is a quiet town, Silas Jones its sole law enforcement officer. The last excitement in Amos was nearly twenty years ago, when a teenage girl disappeared on a date with Larry Ott, Silas's one-time boyhood friend.
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You can bury the past but it always seems to come back, one way or another . . . A gripping Southern Gothic murder mystery, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the YearAmos, Mississippi, is a quiet town, Silas Jones its sole law enforcement officer.
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Thriller and Suspense, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, General Fiction, Recommendations
Paperback. £9.89, down from the £10.99 cover price. Pre-order. 11th March 2027.
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter was written by Tom Franklin and published by Pan Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter has 336 pages
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. Pre-order. 11th March 2027.
