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Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer Billy Bob Holland is convinced of Lucas's innocence but proving it means unearthing the truth from a seething mass of deceit and corruption. A corruption endemic in the way it can be only in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else's business. Billy Bob's relationship with Lucas's family is not an easy one. Years back he was a close friend of Mrs Smothers, too close according to her husband Vernon. And when Lucas overhears gruesome tales of serial murder from a neighbouring cell in the local lock up, the waters are muddied even further and Lucas himself looks like a candidate for an untimely death.
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Cimarron Rose, James Lee Burke
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1998
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- Titel
- Cimarron Rose
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- James Lee Burke
- Verlag
- Orion
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1998
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 312
- ISBN10
- 0752816101
- ISBN13
- 9780752816104
- Reihe
- Billy Bob Holland
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Krimi & Thriller, Thriller, Klassische Krimis, Wilder Westen
- Bewertung
- 3,85 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer Billy Bob Holland is convinced of Lucas's innocence but proving it means unearthing the truth from a seething mass of deceit and corruption. A corruption endemic in the way it can be only in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else's business. Billy Bob's relationship with Lucas's family is not an easy one. Years back he was a close friend of Mrs Smothers, too close according to her husband Vernon. And when Lucas overhears gruesome tales of serial murder from a neighbouring cell in the local lock up, the waters are muddied even further and Lucas himself looks like a candidate for an untimely death.