Shifty's Boys by Chris Offutt

Shifty's Boys by Chris Offutt

Army-cop-turned-small-town-investigator Mick Hardin returns to the Kentucky hills in this second vividly atmospheric thriller from acclaimed literary crime novelist Chris Offutt...

The writing is top-notch, shot through with menace and melancholy * New York Times *
Chris Offutt's mastery of sense of place is still in full bloom * Times (Thriller Book of the Month) *
Another wonderfully atmospheric slice of Appalachian noir * Times & Sunday Times Crime Club (Pick of the Week) *
In elegant, economical prose, Shifty's Boys is an accomplished addition to the ranks of country noir -- Val McDermid
Offutt loves his characters enough to give them lifeWith them, we can grieve or laugh... Offutt's novel is replete with details that brand the humanity pictured within as real, because you can't make this stuff up -- Cathy Downs * Reviewing the Evidence *

Chris Offutt is the author of the short-story collections Kentucky Straight and Out of the Woods, the novels The Good Brother, Country Dark and The Killing Hills, and three memoirs: The Same River Twice, No Heroes, and My Father, the Pornographer. His work has appeared in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays, among many other places. He has written screenplays for Weeds, True Blood, and Treme, and has received fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim foundations.

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ISBN 13	9780857305282
ISBN 10	085730528X
Title	Shifty's Boys
Author	Chris Offutt
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bedford Square Publishers
Year published	2022-10-12
Number of pages	256
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