A Single Shot, (Paperback)

from loosha

Backwoodsman John accidentally shoots and kills a young woman who he mistakes for a wounded deer. Already despondent about his wife and son leaving him and haunted by the memory of his father's loss of the family farm, his life spins out of control until he finds himself in a hole he cannot crawl...

from bookaholicgirl

John Moon forever changes his life after firing a fateful shot at what he believes is a wounded deer only to find he has murdered a young girl and stumbled upon a large amount of cash. He is left with an ethical dilemma - should he report the accident and wind up in jail for poaching (if anyone b...

from PghDragonMan

If you've read Cormac McCarty's No Country For Old Men, you'll recognize the similarities to this work by Matthew F. Jones. That is not to say one is a riff on the other, as they focus on two different aspects of the same scenario. In both works, an honest person stumbles across a huge cache of m...

from loralu

This book chronicles the week in a life of a man used to the slow pace of farming life who wants nothing more than to live off of the land...what used to be his land until the bank took it from his father and so he must poach to "live off the land". The week follows the process of the domino as o...

from abealy

Noir horror at it's creepy best. Written by Matthew F. Jones in 1996 and now reprinted by Mulholland Books, this classic of the genre travels in Jim Thompson and Cormac McCarthy territory with lyric confidence that can jump from pastoral, if claustrophobic, descriptions of place and time to the r...