Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year, "Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter" is set in the quiet town of Amos, Mississippi. Silas Jones serves as the town's sole law enforcement officer. The last excitement in Amos occurred nearly twenty years ago when a teenage girl disappeared on a date with Larry Ott, Silas's one-time boyhood friend. Although the law couldn't prove Larry guilty, the residents of Amos have shunned him ever since.

The town's peace is shattered when someone attempts to kill the reclusive Ott, another young woman goes missing, and the town's drug dealer is murdered. Woven through this tautly written mystery is the unspoken secret that hangs over the lives of two men—one black, one white. This masterful novel is sizzling with deep Southern menace.