Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

"The classic trifecta of talent, heart, and a bone-deep sense of storytelling....A masterful performance, deftly rendered and deeply satisfying. For days on end, I woke with this story on my mind."

   -- David Wroblewski

"A new Tom Franklin novel is always a reason to get excited, but Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is more--a cause for celebration. What a great novel by a great novelist."

--Dennis Lehane

A powerful and resonant novel from Tom Franklin--critically acclaimed author of Smonk and  Hell at the Breech--Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter tells the riveting story of two boyhood friends, torn apart by circumstance, who are brought together again by a terrible crime in a small Mississippi town. An extraordinary novel that seamlessly blends elements of crime and Southern literary fiction, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is a must for readers of Larry Brown, Pete Dexter, Ron Rash, and Dennis Lehane.

Tom Franklin is the author of Poachers: Tales, as well as Hell at the Breech, Smonk, and Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, which received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller, the Willie Morris Prize in Southern Fiction, and the Gold Dagger Award for Best Novel in the United Kingdom. His most recent book, The Tilted World, was written in collaboration with his wife, Beth Ann Fennelly. They live in Oxford, Mississippi, and teach in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi.