Synopses & Reviews
"My hat is off to Stephen Graham Jones, because he is the kind of author that makes the frustrated writer inside every book reviewer cringe with self-doubt."PopMatters
A novel written in second person. The town is Stanton, Texas, population three thousand; the private investigator is disgraced Midland homicide detective Nicholas Bruiseman, who's so down on his luck that he's forced to take a job as a live-in security guard for the town's lone storage facility. This is his new lifestarting over with nothing in the town he grew up in.
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The detective novel resulting when
Barflys Henry Chinaski stumbles into Larry McMurtrys small-town Texas and an Elmore Leonard plot.
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A woefully overmatched PI must confront his past and solve a murder in rural Texas.
About the Author
Stephen Graham Jones is the author of ten novels, three collections, and one novella. He is a full professor at The University of Colorado at Boulder, and in the low-residency program for University of California Riverside -- Palm Desert. Stephen is forty-one, and married with children.