The Bottoms: 9780307475268: Lansdale, Joe R.

This Edgar Award winner is equal parts morality tale and page-turning thriller classic American storytelling in its truest darkest and most affecting form with echoes of William Faulkner and Harper Lee Its 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow moving storm When a young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in the bottoms of the Sabine River their small town is instantly charged with tension