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Back working as a deputy in a small Tennessee town, Turner's hands are full when the sheriff and the only other deputy are shot and the shooter escapes the county jail.

Turner was a homicide cop long ago, until he got mixed up in the wrong case and ended up behind bars himself.

Sallis' novel tracks the fortunes of three men of vastly different ages, backgrounds, and ambitions.

Now a statewide troubleshooter, Detective Lucas Davenport is plunged into a murder investigation that involves a Russian corpse, 50-year-old bullets, and some high-level government connections.

Lucas Davenport has had disturbing cases before, but never one quite like this.

Assuming the role of deputy sheriff in a small town near the city, world-weary ex-Memphis cop John Turner investigates sordid cases in a community that time is slowly forgetting.

Kidd's friend, Bobby the superhacker, has been murdered. When Kidd goes to Bobby's house to investigate, he finds his battered body, but not his jazzed-up laptop.

Following a late-night phone call from his associate Lucas Davenport, Flowers is thrust back into the world of homicide investigation.

On a deceptively quiet Minneapolis evening, Detective Lucas Davenport is summoned to one of the most heinous homicide scenes he's ever encountered.

Years agos, Lucas Davenport almost died at the hands of Clara Rinker, a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner, and the best hit-woman in the business.

"Roger Ebert's criticism shows a nearly unequaled grasp of film history and technique, and formidable intellectual range." —New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger

Wondering if the world is really going to hell in a handbasket? Then consider Roger Ebert's eBook original 33 Movies to Restore Your Faith in Humanity.

Ahh, love. It can be a many-splendored thing, but it can also lead to the pain of a broken heart.

The only film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize, Roger Ebert collects his reviews from the last 30 months in Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012.

Sometimes there's just nothing more absorbing than watching a movie that truly looks at life on the dark side, revealing those dark parts of human nature that we find so fascinating.