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Salt River

by James Sallis
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As Salt River begins, two years have passed since Turner's amour, Val Bjorn, was shot as they sat together on the porch of his cabin. Sometimes you just have to see how much music you can make with what you have left, Val had told him, a mantra for picking up the pieces around her death, not sure how much he or the town has left. Then the sheriff's long-lost son comes ploughing down Main Street into City Hall in what appears to be a stolen car. And waiting at Turner's cabin is his good friend, Eldon Brown, Val's banjo on the back of his motorcycle so that it looks as though he has two heads. 'They think I killed someone,' he says. Turner asks: 'Did you?' And Eldon responds: 'I don't know.' Haunted by his own ghosts, Turner nonetheless goes in search of a truth he's not sure he can live with. The third and final part of James Sallis’ much lauded Turner trilogy of crime novels. 'Haunting . . . Sallis writes poetic rings around the subject' - New York Times
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Series: The Turner Trilogy Publisher: Oldcastle Books

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  • ISBN: 9781842437377
  • Release date: May 11, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9781842437377
  • File size: 339 KB
  • Release date: May 11, 2012
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Fiction Mystery

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As Salt River begins, two years have passed since Turner's amour, Val Bjorn, was shot as they sat together on the porch of his cabin. Sometimes you just have to see how much music you can make with what you have left, Val had told him, a mantra for picking up the pieces around her death, not sure how much he or the town has left. Then the sheriff's long-lost son comes ploughing down Main Street into City Hall in what appears to be a stolen car. And waiting at Turner's cabin is his good friend, Eldon Brown, Val's banjo on the back of his motorcycle so that it looks as though he has two heads. 'They think I killed someone,' he says. Turner asks: 'Did you?' And Eldon responds: 'I don't know.' Haunted by his own ghosts, Turner nonetheless goes in search of a truth he's not sure he can live with. The third and final part of James Sallis’ much lauded Turner trilogy of crime novels. 'Haunting . . . Sallis writes poetic rings around the subject' - New York Times
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Fiction Mystery