Southern mystery

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin is about a mystery of a girls disappearance,decades old. It's also about how paths not taken and things not said can change the course of a life. Larry Ott and Silas Jones played together as children,secretly, as one was black and one was white. More than twenty years have passed and Silas is a constable in the small southern town they grew up in. Larry (scary Larry) was never arrested for the girls disappearance,but stands all but convicted by the town. He leads a solitary life with no friends. When another girl goes missing past wrongs are confronted. This is a novel about the nature of friendship,and how choices can affect a life. Beautiful writing and a complex plot elevate this above the standard mystery. ML