Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter von Tom Franklin

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 318 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9781447271710
Auflage / Bände: Reprints

Tom Franklin's heart-tuggingly melancholic Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter was a standout slice of beautiful writing. Superb dialogue, scuffed social realism and painterly description bring alive the Mississippi backwater where the tangled history between ostracised Larry Ott and popular police officer Silas Jones is exposed by the disappearance of a girl. Franklin's powerfully imagined characters are captivating, and the sadness of the story indelibly stains your soul. Metro -Books of the YearUniversally lauded,Crooked Letter, Crooked Letterwon the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the YearAmos, Mississippi, ist ein ruhiger Ort, Silas Jones sein einziger Gesetzeshüter. Die letzte Aufregung erlebte Amos vor zwanzig Jahren, als ein Mädchen bei einer Verabredung mit Larry Ott, seinem besten Freund aus Kindheitstagen, verschwand. Aufgrund seiner Hautfarbe wurde er sofort verdächtigt, doch Larrys Schuld konnte nie bewiesen werden.<br />Jetzt versucht jemand, den zurückgezogen lebenden Ott zu töten, und wieder verschwindet ein Mädchen.

WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR.<br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.

1GBAusgezeichnet: CWA Specsavers Bestseller Dagger 2011.
Ausgezeichnet: CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger 2011Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Tom Franklin teaches in the University of Mississippi's MFA programme and lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, the poet Beth Ann Fennelly, and their children.

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