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Book SynopsisSarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage and years slinging scrambled eggs over greasy spoon griddles, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story, a parable about memory, atonement, and finding shape in...
Trade ReviewOne of the Best Crime Novels of the Year - The gorgeous authorial voice of James Sallis rings out in
Sarah Jane -- Marilyn Stasio * New York Times *
Mesmerising fiction from America's most compelling crime critic, poet and novelist * Times and Sunday Times Crime Club *
One of the American greats, James Sallis details the conflicted life of Sarah Jane Pullman in this spare, astringent character study. Sallis offers an understanding vision of his heroine, conjuring her liaisons with a variety of ill-advised lovers as the novel moves from her troubled past to a new life as a detective * Financial Times *
This short but far from sweet novel announces Sallis as one of America's top crime writers, adding another feather to a cap already weighed down with enough to start a chicken farm of his own. -- Mark Timlin * Buzz Magazine *
Exquisite prose... Seemingly effortless; efficient, brutal and beautiful -- Craig Sisterton * New Zealand Listener *
