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A tale based on a true story finds the thirteen-year-old daughter of a homeless man lured by a charismatic drifter to Depression-era Texas, where she is forced to participate in a year-long crime spree that culminates in the notorious Greenville "skeleton murder" trial of 1935.
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Review:
Now and again you discover a thriller that sweeps you off your feet. This is one (Daily Mail)
A gritty, gripping read, and one that begs to be put on film (Los Angeles Times)
A superb first novel ... Written in a style that is the prose equivalent of a Dorothea Lange photograph ... Extraordinarily moving reading (Guardian)
Greaves's deft prose twinkles like Okie campfires (in the night). Storytelling at its most compelling: raw, yet tender and as dangerous as warm moonshine breath on a young girl's neck (Sir Alan Parker, director of Bugsy Malone and The Life of David Gale)
For crime lovers who want a genuinely gripping read (Glamour)
A riveting and stylistically stripped-down tale ... Subtle, seductive writing ... His evocation of place is something to behold (Big Issue)
A taut and intriguing thriller (Sunday Times)
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A gritty, gripping read, and one that begs to be put on film (Los Angeles Times)
A superb first novel ... Written in a style that is the prose equivalent of a Dorothea Lange photograph ... Extraordinarily moving reading (Guardian)
Greaves's deft prose twinkles like Okie campfires (in the night). Storytelling at its most compelling: raw, yet tender and as dangerous as warm moonshine breath on a young girl's neck (Sir Alan Parker, director of Bugsy Malone and The Life of David Gale)
For crime lovers who want a genuinely gripping read (Glamour)
A riveting and stylistically stripped-down tale ... Subtle, seductive writing ... His evocation of place is something to behold (Big Issue)
A taut and intriguing thriller (Sunday Times)
A true saga of innocence and evil, survival and redemption, set in the Depression-era American West
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 141045715X
- ISBN 13 9781410457158
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages409
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