Sunset and Sawdust
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| Author | Joe R. Lansdale |
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| Cover artist | Peter Mendelsund & Carol Devine Carson |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime/Mystery/Suspense/Thriller |
| Publisher | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Publication date | 4 January 2005 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Trade paperback) |
| Pages | 336 |
| ISBN | 9780375719226 |
Sunset and Sawdust is a crime filled "whodunit" type novel by Joe R Lansdale published in 2005 by Vintage Crime/black Lizard.
Sunset Jones is a beautiful red-headed woman and wife in East Texas in the 1930s. One night during a cyclone Sunset gets fed up of all the rape and abuse being done onto her by her husband, Pete, that she shoots him dead. Her husband Pete however was the constable of the nearby town known as Camp Rapture. Soon the town gets a new sheriff as Sunset's mother-in-law arranges for her to take over Pete's duties. This was not accepted by some of the residents in town. Soon Sunset will find out more about the town as a double homicide takes place. Her investigation to seek justice and answers will pull her into a journey filled with greed, deceit, double-dealings, and unthinkable acts of maliciousness. Sunset will need to uncover the truth of what is really going on with the help of her own posse.
Publication
New York, NY United States[1]