A review by lnocita
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

4.0

Scary Larry has always been a loner and lonely growing up in a small, small southern town in the 70's with a disproving father who was disappointed in his bookish ways. When a local girl disappears after a purported date with Larry, Larry is reviled and ostracized even more than before, the local pariah. 25 years later, another girl is missing and Larry is the prime suspect. Silas, the local constable, feels the tug of a long ago bond and begins to confront the skeletons in his closet. Lyrical and languid like a hot Mississippi summer day, this light mystery is a story about acceptance, friendship, and forgiveness. I don't know what it is about Southern writers, but I sure can fall into the easy cadence, letting the words flow over and around me like butter on a warm biscuit.