Tom Franklin writes Southern crime and literary fiction about violence, poverty and damaged loyalties, usually in small communities where old events remain difficult to escape. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter follows two men in rural Mississippi: white mechanic Larry Ott, long suspected in a girl's disappearance, and Black police officer Silas Jones, once his childhood friend, whose new investigation forces both men back towards a shared past. Hell at the Breech draws on an early twentieth-century Alabama feud, while the stories in Poachers focus on hunters, criminals and marginal lives in the Deep South. Franklin's prose is lean, dark and strongly tied to place, with crime plots carrying as much weight as character history. In genre terms, the books range across Southern noir, literary crime and rural American fiction. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter pairs a recognisable crime investigation with the place-bound tension found in writers such as Daniel Woodrell and Ron Rash. Read more Less
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