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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter won the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel 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' 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.

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Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Year
2011
ISBN-13
9780230758957
Genre
Crime & ThrillerFiction
Topics
Small-town secretsRacial tensions and friendshipDisappearance and murder investigationSouthern Gothic settingGuilt and redemption

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