Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (P.S.)

by Tom Franklin

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.

Reviewed by jamiereadthis on

2 of 5 stars

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Good but falls shy of great for me. I felt like I was being marched to the end and shown everything that was important without getting a feel for it myself. A bit of specialness is missing. Everything that happens pertains to the case. It made me miss Larry Brown.

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