Book Review: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Larry Ott and Silas “32” Jones were able to form a brief friendship growing up in small-town Mississippi in the 70s even though Larry was white and Silas was black. One day Larry took a girl to the drive-in and she was never seen again. Although Larry was never charged with a crime, the county shunned him after that and Silas left town. Now twenty years later, Silas has returned as a constable and Larry continues to live as a hermit. When another girl disappears, they are forced to reconnect and confront their past.
This book is a crime drama but it’s more than that too. It’s about Larry and Silas and the relationship between the two men. Larry and Silas are both well-developed characters when it would have been easy to make them stereotypes. I felt like I got to know them both really well and sympathized with both of them. The whodunit part of the plot wasn’t that hard to figure out but I don’t think that was the point of the book. This is a wonderful, character driven story to be immersed in.
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