Sunset and sawdust
By: Joe R. Lansdale
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780297829645
Subjects: Police; Fiction; Social life and customs; Romans, nouvelles; Mœurs et coutumes; Manners and customs
Description: A gripping crime thriller set in Texas at the start of the 1930s oil boom. When Pete Jones, the local constable, is shot dead, his widow, Sunset, finds herself in his job, investigating a series of brutal murders. Most of the townsfolk object to her wearing Pete's gun and badge, some because this is the 1930s and they think a woman's place is in the home, others because it was Sunset who blew off Pete's head in the first place.