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"One incendiary image ignites the next in this highly combustible procedural ... written with a ferocious passion that'll knock the wind out of you." - The New York Times Book Review "Fine Southern storytelling meets hard-boiled crime in a tale that connects an overlooked chapter of history to our own continuing struggles with race today." - Charles Frazier, bestselling author of Cold Mountain "This page-turner reads like the best of James Ellroy." - Publishers Weekly, starred review "In the way the story is told coupled with its heightened racial context, Darktown reminded me of Walter Mosley or a George Pelecanos novel." - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "High-quality ... crime fiction with a nimble sense of history .
About the Author
Thomas Mullen is the author of "The Last Town on Earth," which was named Best Debut Novel of 2006 by USA Today and was awarded the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for excellence in historical fiction, "The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers," "The Revisionists," and his new novel, "Darktown." His books have been named to Year's Best lists by the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, The Onion's A.V. Club, and several others. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and two sons.
