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SALT
RIVER
JAMES SALLIS
National press
coverage
Nominee for
the CWA Gold
Dagger Award
First 500 copies
signed and numbered
As Salt River begins, two years have passed since
Turner’s love, Val Bjorn, was shot as they sat together
on the porch of his cabin. Turner, now in his 50’s, ex-
cop, ex-con, Vietnam veteran, former therapist and
‘Sallis writes crime novels that read
now Sheriff in small town Cripple Creek, is trying to
like literature’ – Los Angeles Times
face a truth head-on: ‘Sometimes you just have to see
how much music you can make with what you have
‘Sallis is an unsung genius of
left.’ Then the sheriff’s long-lost son comes ploughing
crime writing’ – The Independent
down Main Street into City Hall in what appears to
be a stolen car. And waiting at Turner’s cabin is his
‘James Sallis is a superb writer’
good friend, Eldon Brown, Val’s banjo on the back of
– The Times
his motorcycle so that it looks as though he has two
heads. ‘They think I killed someone,’ he says. Turner
‘Sallis creates vivid images in very few
asks: ‘Did you?’ And Eldon responds: ‘I don’t know.’
Haunted by his own ghosts, Turner nonetheless goes
words and his taut, pared down prose is
in search of a truth he’s not sure he can live with...
distinctive and powerful’
– The Sunday Telegraph
£9.99 HARDBACK
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FIRST 500 COPIES SIGNED AND NUMBERED
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