Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
by:
Tom Franklin (author)
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...
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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.
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Format: kindle
ISBN:
9780230758957
Publish date: February 1st 2011
Publisher: Macmillan
Pages no: 292
Edition language: English
Category:
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Southern,
Suspense
I listened to the audio of this one and it was very well done. This was all about the story, the relationships, the secrets. The characterizations throughout were spot on and I was totally immersed in the tale from start to finish.I enjoyed everything about this one. 4.5 Stars. Excellent. Highly Re...
Definitely sped through the last 60 or so pages! I was not ready for it to end. I enjoyed this book a lot. I liked the way that the story was told from the perspective of the two main characters. This book touched on some issues such as racism and inter racial relationships but it was not too heavy....
The secrets that you keep....will drag you under.In the later part of the 1970s, two boys.....Larry, who always has his nose in a horror novel and athletic Silas, thrown together by chance, form the fragile kind of friendship that outcasts find, a friendship made even more fragile by the weight of i...
Set in rural Mississippi, a land of magnolias, kudzu, and lob-lolly pines, this is a mystery novel with two narrators, "Scary Larry" Ott, who has had no friends for 25 years, and his former friend, Silas Jones. Larry Ott was a lonely boy in 1982, when his first date ended in disaster (the girl di...
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