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TOM FRANKLIN - GEBRAUCHT CROOKED LETTER CROOKED...

'Superb. Dark  brooding  beautifully written' The Times Books of the Year   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 Amos's residents have 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 mystery is the unspoken secret that hangs over the lives of two men - one black
one white. Crooked Letter  Crooked Letter  winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime
Novel of the Year  is a masterful novel  sizzling with deep Southern menace. 'A beautifully
crafted thriller. This award-winning crime novel invited comparisons with To Kill A
Mockingbird' Financial Times Books of the Year   'Franklin's prose is startlingly beautiful . .
. But what sticks at the end is Franklin's shattering  heartbreaking depiction of loneliness'
Observer Books of the Year   'Beautiful writing  a spot-on sense of place and an emotionally
potent story charge this highly original  literary crime offering' George Pelecanos

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