Crooked Letter Crooked Letter
Anthony Awards (nominee)
"Masterful… deftly rendered and deeply satisfying. For days on end I woke with this story on my mind." – David Wroblewski
"A very fine novel indeed." – Richard Russo
"A highly original crime offering." – George Pelecanos
"A great novel." – Dennis Lehane
In a small Mississippi town, two men are torn apart by circumstance and reunited by tragedy in this resonant new novel from the award-winning author of the critically-acclaimed Hell at the Breech.
Larry Ott and Silas ''32'' Jones were unlikely boyhood friends. Larry was the child of lower middle-class white parents, Silas the son of a poor, single, black mother – their worlds as different as night and day. Yet a special bond developed between them in Chabot, Mississippi. But within a few years, tragedy struck. In high school, a girl who lived up the road from Larry had gone to the drive-in movie with him and nobody had seen her again. Her stepfather tried to have Larry arrested but no body was found and La...
Number of pages: 288
Reading time: 4 h. 48 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF