by JoeRLansdale (Author)
When Pete Jones, the local constable, is shot dead, his widow, Sunset, finds herself in his job, investigating a series of brutal murders. Most of the townsfolk object to her wearing Pete's gun and badge, some because this is the 1930s and they think a woman's place is in the home, others because it was Sunset who blew off Pete's head in the first place. As much a modern western as a murder mystery, SUNSET & SAWDUST features a cast of outlandish characters -- gun-men, hobos, sheriffs, hookers, migrants and coloured families struggling to make living under the malevolent eyes of the Ku Klux Klan. Sunset's investigation leads her and her friends into a labyrinth of greed, corruption, and unspeakable malice. Nothing and no-one are quite what they seem in Texas.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 06 Oct 2005
ISBN 10: 0753819937
ISBN 13: 9780753819937
Book Overview: 'Joe Lansdale is the poet laureate of the East Texas backwoods and this new semi-historical romp through dirt roads, deadbeat cops and unshaven villain land evokes the 1930s with the rawness and pungency of Steinbeck's Californian sagas' Guardian 'An enjoyable, good-humoured story' Sunday Telegraph 'A word-perfect picture' Mirror Lansdale has won the Edgar Award for best novel with THE BOTTOMS and is also the winner of the British Fantasy Award, the American Horror Award, and six Bram Stoker Awards. For fans of of Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard and Robert Crais
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