Edge of Dark Water
Author(s): Joe R. Lansdale
Mark Twain crossed with crime fiction - a Depression-era noir by fan favourite Joe Lansdale. May Lynn was a pretty girl from a mean family who dreamed of becoming a film star. Now she's dead - her body dredged up from the Sabine River, bound with wire and weighted down. Her best friend, Sue Ellen, has a family meaner than May's and a yearning for something greater than she's been given. She thinks the least she can do for her friend is take her ashes to Hollywood, and place them on her favourite actor's grave. But May Lynn's diary holds a secret: the location of a large sum of money. What seems like a stroke of fortune has disastrous consequences, and Sue Ellen's escape is about to get more complicated than she'd ever imagined.
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'Joe Lansdale is the poet laureate of the East Texas backwoods' -- Guardian 'A folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace.' -- New York Times Book Review 'Lansdale rarely hits a wrong note. He's a superb stylist and a first-rate storyteller' -- Booklist 'Lansdale is a terrifically gifted storyteller with a sharp country boy wit' -- Washington Post
Joe R. Lansdale is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Sunset and Sawdust, Rumble Tumble and The Bottoms. He has received the British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award, the Edgar Award, the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature, and seven Bram Stoker Awards. He lives with his family in Nacogdoches, Texas.
General Fields
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- : Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- : 31 January 2012
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Joe R. Lansdale
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 813.6
- : 320