Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

Tom Franklin, 2010

In rural Mississippi, the young daughter of a well-to-do family has gone missing. While there are no real clues as to what happened to her, the majority of the suspicion is directed at Larry Ott, a mechanic in the town who was suspected of murdering a girl back in the 1970s, when he was still in high school. While he was never convicted of the crime, the girl was never found and Larry was the last person to see her alive. Now, Silas "32" Jones, the town constable and former boyhood friend of Larry Ott, is tasked with finding the missing girl, and  what happened in the past just might be forced into the light.

This ended up being a really good mystery novel. I thought that the characters were very well-developed and sympathetic, even when what they did wasn't quite right. Even the minor characters were pretty well fleshed out. I was able to work out a few of the twists before they were revealed, but not in detail, and I thought that even though I saw some of them coming they were very well done and fit with the storyline very well.

In addition, I listened to this one on audiobook and I thought that the narrator did an excellent job with the reading, even giving distinct voices to the main characters that made them identifiable and gave them a little additional personality. 

An excellent mystery novel. Highly recommended.