Larry Ott has lived under a cloud of suspicion for decades. When he was a teenager, a girl vanished after a date with him, and though no evidence ever surfaced, the town branded him guilty. Now, years later, another girl is missing—and once again, all eyes are on Larry.
Silas “32” Jones, once Larry’s childhood friend, left town years ago. Now he’s back, wearing a badge, and forced to confront not just the new crime but the ghosts of a friendship shattered by the past. As buried secrets rise and the lines between truth and perception blur, the two men must finally face what really happened all those years ago.
A gripping mix of crime and Southern literary fiction, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is a haunting story of guilt, redemption, and reckoning.