Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Crooked letter, crooked letter / Tom Franklin 274 p.

Larry Ott spends his entire life as an outsider; awash in gossip and whispers when his very first date ever horribly wrong--the girl never returns. No body is ever found, no evidence of foul play, nor does Larry ever confess. "Scary" Larry becomes the key suspect when another girl goes missing. When Larry is shot, the investigation is run by his childhood friend, African American Silas Jones, now constable. Slow paced, descriptive mystery set in the 1970s Mississippi.

Anthony Award Nominee

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