Sunset and Sawdust
In the middle of a cyclone, beautiful, red-haired Sunset Jones shoots her husband Pete dead when he tries to beat and rape her. To Camp Rapture’s general consternation, Sunset’s mother-in-law arranges for her to take over from Pete as town constable. As if that weren’t hard enough to swallow in...
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In the middle of a cyclone, beautiful, red-haired Sunset Jones shoots her husband Pete dead when he tries to beat and rape her. To Camp Rapture’s general consternation, Sunset’s mother-in-law arranges for her to take over from Pete as town constable. As if that weren’t hard enough to swallow in depression era east Texas, Sunset actually takes the job seriously, and her investigation into a brutal double murder pulls her into a maelstrom of greed, corruption, and unspeakable malice. It is a case that will require a well of inner strength she never knew she had. Spirited and electrifying, Sunset and Sawdust is a mystery and a tale like nothing you’ve read before.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375719226 (0375719229)
Publish date: January 4th 2005
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Americana,
Horror,
Suspense,
Western
Sunset, die Frau mit den roten Haaren wird dem texanischen Städtchen Camp Rapture ewig in Erinnerung bleiben. Sie wird zum ersten weiblichen Constable in den 1930er-Jahren, weil sie ihrem Ehemann Pete den Kopf wegschießt. Und dies ist ihre Geschichte. Es beginnt mit einen tosenden Sturm der Camp Rap...
The Great Depression, East Texas, Cyclones, wife-beating raping husband, dead wife-beating raping husband by page two, abused woman who shoots wife-beating raping husband becomes constable by page ten, white population is outraged, black population is amused, corrupt politicians, racism, sexism, dea...
Joe Lansdale writes some weird stuff. Consider “Bubba Ho-Tep,” a novella about a dying Elvis impersonator living in a nursing home, a black man who believes he’s JFK in hiding from the government, and a mummy who’s stealing the souls of the nursing home residents.Yeah.Sunset and Sawdust is a more ma...