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Cimarron Rose

James Lee Burke

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#1136 of 8,085 books · #313 in Crime & Thriller

Won the Edgar Award for Best Novel (1998).

Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer Billy Bob Holland is convinced of Lucas's innocence but proving it means unearthing the truth from a seething mass of deceit and corruption. A corruption endemic in the way it can be only in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else's business. Billy Bob's relationship with Lucas's family is not an easy one - years back he was a close friend of Mrs Smothers, too close according to her husband Vernon. And when Lucas overhears gruesome tales of serial murder from a neighbouring cell in the local lock-up, the waters are muddied even further and Lucas himself looks like a candidate for an untimely death.

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Publisher
Hachette UK
ISBN-13
9781409132790
Topics
Legal defense and justiceSmall-town corruptionMurder investigation

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