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Evil bigotry and doing the right thing All are done as expertly as ever by a master writer DAILY TELEGRAPH

Lucas Smothers nineteen and from the wrong end of town has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl His lawyer Billy Bob Holland is convinced of Lucass innocence but proving it means unearthing the truth from a seething mass of deceit and corruption A corruption endemic in the way it can be only in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody elses business

Billy Bobs relationship with Lucass family is not an easy one years back he was a close friend of Mrs Smothers too close according to her husband Vernon And when Lucas overhears gruesome tales of serial murder from a neighbouring cell in the local lockup the waters are muddied even further and Lucas himself looks like a candidate for an untimely death

Praise for one of the great American crime writers James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ a great American novelist whose work taken individually or as a whole is unsurpassed Michael Connelly

A gorgeous prose stylist Stephen King

Richly deserves to be described now as one of the finest crime writers America has ever produced Daily Mail