Dark Places
- ISBN-10
- 146420425X
- ISBN-13
- 9781464204258
- Series
- Dark Places
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-09-01
- Publisher
- Sourcebooks, Inc.
- Author
- Reavis Z. Wortham
Description
Top 10 Modern Westerns for 2016 by True West Magazine Top Books for 2015 by Strand Magazine "Reavis Z. Wortham is the real thing: a literary voice that's gut-bucket Americana delivered with a warm and knowing Texas twang." —CJ Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author At the tail end of 1967, the Parker family once again finds it impossible to hide from a world spinning out of control. Fourteen-year-old Top still can't fit in with their Center Springs, Texas, community or forget recent, vicious crimes. His near-twin cousin Pepper, desperate to escape her own demons, joins the Flower Children flocking to California—just as two businessmen are kidnapped and murdered in the Red River bottoms on the same night a deadly hit and run kills a farmer. Constable Ned Parker wonders if these crimes are connected, but he goes after Pepper, leaving the investigation with Sheriff Cody Parker. Parker hires Deputy Anna Sloan, an investigator with an eye toward detail as everyone is eyeing her. Yet it is instinct that propels her after killers through a world nearly forgotten, the hunt's backdrop one of continuous rain, gloomy skies, and floods. When she's ambushed, the investigation accelerates into gunfire, chases, and hair-raising suspense. What of Pepper? Out on Route 66, the Mother Road to California, a man named Crow isn't what he seems. Lies, deceptions, and a band of outlaw motorcyclists proves to the Parkers that no matter where you turn, no matter what you do, the world is full of such darkness that even grandmothers are capable of unspeakable deeds. Best Small Fictions of 2015 by The Dallas Morning News Will Rogers Medallion Award 2016 Honorable Mention, Western Fiction
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Dark Places
By Gillian FlynnLibby Day was just seven years old when her brother massacred her family while she hid in a cupboard.
-
Dark Places
By Gillian FlynnAfter witnessing the murder of her mother and sisters, 7-year-old Libby Day testifies against her brother Ben, but 25 years later she tries to profit from her tragic history and admit that her story might not have been accurate.
-
Dark Places: The Haunted House in Film
By Barry CurtisWith Dark Places, Barry Curtis leads us deep inside these haunted spaces to explore them – and the monstrous antagonists who dwell there.
-
My Dark Places
By James EllroyOn 21 June 1958, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy left her home in California. She was found strangled the next day. Her ten year-old son James had been with her estranged husband all weekend and was informed of her death on his return.
-
Those Dark Places: Industrial Science Fiction Roleplaying
By Jonathan HicksAre you sure this is what you want? – Crew Orientation Briefing *** Those Dark Places is a rules-light, story-focused roleplaying game about the darker side of space exploration and the people who travel the stars in claustrophobic, ...
-
The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places
By Gillian Flynn"Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre." —Stephen King This collection, available exclusively as an ebook, brings together the first two novels of Gillian Flynn, author ...
-
In Dark Places
By Michael PrescottScientist Robin Cameron is on the verge of a breakthrough in psychiatric treatment for mental patients. But first she must enter the unforgiving darkness of their minds. Original.
-
Dark Places
By Jon EvansIn a debut novel that travels deep into the little known culture of young backpackers searching for their next hit of adventure, writer and world traveler Jon Evans has created a memorable twenty-something hero whose high-altitude smarts ...
-
Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope
By Jonathan M. BryantBryant describes the captives' harrowing voyage through waters rife with pirates and governed by an array of international treaties.
-
In the Dark Places of Wisdom
By Peter KingsleyThis book brings the key evidence together and presents a new picture of Parmenides, the ancient Greek poet, as priest, initiate and healer.