He has been called 'hilarious… refreshing… a terrifically gifted storyteller with a sharp country-boy wit' (Washington Post Book World), and praised for his 'folklorist's eye for telling detail and [his] front-porch raconteur's sense of pace' (New York Times Book Review). Now, Joe R. Landsdale gives us a fast-moving, electrifying new novel: a murder mystery set in a steamy backwater of Depression-era East Texas. It begins with an explosion: Sunset Jones kills her husband with a bullet to the brain. Never mind that he was raping her. Pete Jones was constable of the small sawmill town of Camp Rapture (' Camp Rupture ' to the local blacks), where no woman, least of all Pete's, refuses her husband what he wants. So most...