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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin |
| Larry Ott has been an outcast in his small Mississippi town ever since the night twenty-five years earlier when he went out on a date with a girl who was never seen again. Among those who have turned their backs on Larry is Silas, a former high school baseball star who is now the town constable. When another girl goes missing from the town and Larry himself is discovered dying of a gunshot wound, the town assumes Larry has tried to kill himself after committing another crime. Silas, who has secrets of his own including a profound guilt for the way he treated Larry, isn't so sure. This suspenseful novel would appeal to readers who like the books of Joe R. Lansdale or Stephen King's non-horror novels. It boasts a terrific first sentence -- "The Rutherford girl had been missing for eight days when Larry Ott returned home and found a monster waiting in his house."
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