The new Turner novel, by the acclaimed author of Cypress Grove.

Two years ago, James Sallis introduced his compelling, new protagonist—Turner—in Cypress Grove, a novel praised from coast to coast. The Boston Globe said “Sallis, a poet in private eye’s clothing, has found in Turner a rich new character to hang around with. Let’s hope this isn’t the last we see of him.” Now Turner is back in Cripple Creek, a novel as atmospheric and eventful as anything Sallis has written.

A year or so has passed since the events of Cypress Grove. Ex-policeman, ex-con, former therapist, Turner has become Deputy Sheriff in the small town within driving distance of Memphis, Tennessee, to which he had migrated in hopes of escaping his past. His life is mending as he and Val Bjorn grow closer. And then a young man, arrested on a routine traffic stop with more than $200,000 in his trunk, is forcibly sprung from jail after Sheriff Don Lee is brutally assaulted. Throwing caution aside, Turner goes in pursuit to Memphis, unleashing ghosts he thought he had left behind, and endangering all that matters to him now.

Cripple Creek is filled with a unique voice and an indelible sense of place. The Cleveland Plain Dealer claimed, in reviewing Cypress Grove, that “Sallis might be one of the best writers in America…almost every page produces a sentence, phrase, or paragraph so deliciously right that readers will want to reread it.” Cripple Creek lives up to that praise in every way.

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Praise for Cypress Grove:

“A mystery that deserves to be savored.”—Los Angeles Times

“An outstanding and unpredictable literary thriller.”—Seattle Times