num_pages: 257
description: The arrival of big, ugly John C. Faith in a battered Porsche sends up warning flags throughout the small Northern California resort community of Pomo. No one trusts the stranger who refuses to talk about why he is there. And when a local beauty with questionable morals is found murdered, suspicion immediately falls on him.Condemned without a trial, Faith hides among Pomo’s outcasts and conducts his own investigation. But his hunt for the killer and the town’s hunt for him threaten to dredge up secrets best left uncovered in this powder keg of a town, exposing crimes and dark compulsions that can only lead to more violence and death.
language: English
title: A Wasteland of Strangers
titlecomplete: A Wasteland of Strangers
genres: Thriller, Fiction, Crime, Mystery
ratings_count: 131
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Barry Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Hammett Prize, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Walker & Company