Vintage Lansdale, A FINE DARK LINE brims with exquisite suspense, powerful characterizations, and the vibrant evocation of a lost time. Add to Wish List Link to this Book Add to Bookbag Sell this Book Buy it at Amazon Compare Prices. And on one terrifying night of rushing creek water and thundering rain, an arcane, murderous force will rise from the past to threaten the Stanley and everything he holds dear. In his quest to unravel the truth about their tragic fates, Stanley finds a protector in Buster Lighthorse Smith, a black, retired Indian-reservation cop and a sage on the finer points of Sherlock Holmes, the blues, and life's faded dreams.īut not every buried thing stays dead. Lansdale THE HAP COLLINS AND LEONARD PINE NOVELS Captains Outrageous Rumble Tumble Bad Chili The Two-Bear Mambo Mucho Mojo Savage Season NOVELS A. And an undetected menace simmers under the heat that clings to the skin like molasses.įor thirteen-year-old Stanley Mitchell, the end of innocence comes with his discovery of the mysterious long-ago demise of two very different young women. The kids listen to rockabilly on the radio and waste their weekends at the Dairy Queen. It is the summer of 1958 in Dewmont, Texas, a town the great American postwar boom passed by. A classic coming-of-age murder mystery with corrupt cops, segregation, ice cream and missing lesbians Stanley enters a forbidden world of secrets filled with death and darkness, jealous lovers, and ghostly occurrences-until he finds the real murderer of the.
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