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Book SynopsisArmy-cop-turned-small-town-investigator Mick Hardin returns to the Kentucky hills in this second vividly atmospheric thriller from acclaimed literary crime novelist Chris Offutt...
Trade ReviewThe writing is top-notch, shot through with menace and melancholy * New York Times *
Chris Offutt's mastery of sense of place is still in full bloom * Times (Thriller Book of the Month) *
Another wonderfully atmospheric slice of Appalachian noir * Times & Sunday Times Crime Club (Pick of the Week) *
In elegant, economical prose,
Shifty's Boys is an accomplished addition to the ranks of country noir -- Val McDermid
Offutt loves his characters enough to give them life. With them, we can grieve or laugh... Offutt's novel is replete with details that brand the humanity pictured within as real, because you can't make this stuff up -- Cathy Downs * Reviewing the Evidence *
