Author James Sallis is acclaimed for his taut mysteries featuring world-weary ex-Memphis cop John Turner, including Cripple Creek. Assuming the role of deputy sheriff in a small town near the city, Turner investigates sordid cases in a community that time is slowly forgetting. Here his past catches up to him when his son rolls down Main Street riding in what appears to be a stolen car. "It's a crime that a writer this good isn't better known."-Chicago Sun-Times
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Cypress Grove
By: James Sallis
Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
James Sallis, author of the Lew Griffin detective stories, has been praised as one of Southern literature's most original voices. In Cypress Grove, a murder with eerie connections to the past brings a man back to his calling. Turner was a homicide cop long ago, until he got mixed up in the wrong case and ended up behind bars himself. Now retired... Read more »
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Cripple Creek
By: James Sallis
Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
James Sallis' stories about ex-cop, ex-con, and ex-psychotherapist Turner have garnered starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly. Back working as a deputy in a small Tennessee town, Turner's hands are full when the sheriff and the only other deputy are shot and the shooter escapes the county jail. Tracking the criminal to Memphis,... Read more »
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Salt River
By: James Sallis
Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Author James Sallis is acclaimed for his taut mysteries featuring world-weary ex-Memphis cop John Turner, including Cripple Creek. Assuming the role of deputy sheriff in a small town near the city, Turner investigates sordid cases in a community that time is slowly forgetting. Here his past catches up to him when his son rolls down Main Street... Read more »
Learn more| Author | James Sallis |
| Narrator | Alan Nebelthau |
| ISBN | 9781436133159 |
| Length | 3 hours 9 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Recorded Books, Inc. |
| Publication date | October 3, 2008 |
| Edition | Unabridged |
| Libro.fm rank | #144,550 Overall |