Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

<p><i>You can bury the past but it always seems to come back, one way or another . . . </i><br><br><b>WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR</b><br><br>Amos, Mississippi, is a quiet town, Silas Jones its sole law enforcement officer. The last excitement in Amos 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 the town’s residents have shunned him ever since.<br><br>Then someone tries to kill the reclusive Ott, another young woman goes missing, and the town’s drug dealer is murdered. Driven by deep-seated guilt, Silas throws himself into investigating the crimes. Woven through the tautly written mystery is the unspoken secret that hangs over the lives of two men - one black, one white.<br><br><i>Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter</i>, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year, is a masterful novel oozing with deep Southern menace.</p>