CROOKED LETTER CROOKED LETTER – TOM FRANKLIN

WINNER OF 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. 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.