by Tom Franklin
First published 2017
Silas Jones works alone as the only law enforcement officer in quiet Amos. Twenty years ago, a teenage girl vanished after dating Larry Ott, once Silas's friend. Though Larry was never convicted, the town cast him out and branded him guilty. Now the peace shatters. Someone attacks Larry. Another teenage girl dies. A local drug dealer turns up murdered. As Silas investigates, the violence forces him to confront what really happened two decades earlier. The truth connects two men across racial lines in ways that could destroy them both. Franklin sets this crime story in the American South, where past sins refuse to stay buried and friendship becomes a dangerous liability.
Genres: fiction, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Amos
Period: 20th-century
400 pages · Paperback · Papierowy Księżyc