- Fiction, Journalists, Cold cases (Criminal investigation), Detective and mystery stories
Abrash amalgam of terrifying suspense, raw humor, and intriguing mystery that unfolds in the vividly rendered shadowy lowlands of East Texas.After a harrowing stint in the Iraq war, Cason Statler returns home to the small East Texas town of Camp Rapture, where he drinks too much, stalks his ex-wife, and takes a job at the local paper, only to uncover notes on a cold case murder.
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Classical in form, contemporary, unpretentious and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Joe R. Lansdale
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 287
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307270412
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