by ScottPhillips (Author)
Cottonwood, Kansas, 1872:
Bill Ogden is an unfaithful husband and an unwilling farmer who has imperilled his marriage, not so much through his infidelities but because he has stolen his wife's inheritance to build a saloon.
Marc Leval is a wealthy entrepreneur, newly arrived in town with a beautiful, lonely wife and an exciting agenda. He hopes to make sleepy Cottonwood into a thriving metropolis, and he requires Bill's help.
The Benders are a family of serial killers who run the Cottonwood Hotel. And as railway money comes to town, Cottonwood's population of prospective victims is about to increase dramatically . . .
Evocative, horrible and very funny, COTTONWOOD is the new, gripping read from the author of THE ICE HARVEST.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Publisher: Picador
Published: 18 Jun 2004
ISBN 10: 0330493175
ISBN 13: 9780330493178
Book Overview: Scott Phillips' first book, The Ice Harvest , wasa finalist for the Hammet Prize and the Edgar Award, and winner of the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco Silver Medal. In the UK he has been shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Award and teh Macallan Dagger for Fiction Award for best debut crime novel.