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The Edgar Award winning thriller The Bottoms is classic American storytelling in its truest, darkest, and more affecting formwith 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. When a second body turns up, this time of a white woman, there is little Harry can do from stopping his Klan neighbors from lynching an innocent black man. Together with his younger sister, Harry sets out to discover who the real killer is, and to do so they will search for a truth that resides far deeper than any river or skin color.
The book is told from the POV of old man Harry who remembers the times when he was a young boy, only just beginning to understand how things were handled back then, questioning opinions of others and learning to form his own. Eager to solve the mystery of several brutally murdered women, of whom he and his sister found the first body and therefore he feels some kind of personal responsibility, Harry is eager to accompany his father, who happens to be the local constable, and also to...
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