May Lynn dreamed of being a movie star. But her future was short, and it wasn’t on the silver screen. It was down in the dark depths of the Sabine River with a sewing machine wired to her feet.
In Depression-era Texas, a better life is hard to come by. May Lynn’s friends Sue Ellen, Terry and Jinx know they need to leave, and now they have a reason – they’re going to take May’s ashes all the way to Hollywood.
But silent obstacles stand in their way: a family’s worth of betrayal, a fortune’s worth of stolen gold, and a legendary killer who’ll stop at nothing…
Joe R. Lansdale is one of the great American crime writers and Edge of Dark Water shows him at his finest. If you haven’t read him yet, you’re missing out.
In Depression-era Texas, a better life is hard to come by. May Lynn’s friends Sue Ellen, Terry and Jinx know they need to leave, and now they have a reason – they’re going to take May’s ashes all the way to Hollywood.
But silent obstacles stand in their way: a family’s worth of betrayal, a fortune’s worth of stolen gold, and a legendary killer who’ll stop at nothing…
Joe R. Lansdale is one of the great American crime writers and Edge of Dark Water shows him at his finest. If you haven’t read him yet, you’re missing out.
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The pace never slackens, the writing is elegance personified, and the story tugs at the heartstrings
Joe Lansdale is one of the dark kings of modern mystery fiction, a master of the genre. His name deserves to be whispered with the greats.
Lansdale has the delight in language of the best raconteur; he also delivers some wince-inducing violence and can crank up the tension to screaming point.
A terrific and memorable novel that sticks in the mind long after it is finished
A charming Gothic tale...an adventure as funny and frightening as anything that could have been dreamed up by the Brothers Grimm - or Mark Twain
EDGE OF DARK WATER describes a trip downriver that is one-half Huck Finn, one-half Deliverance, and entirely Joe Lansdale.
The strongest, truest, and most pitch-perfect narration since Huck Finn's. Marvelous and terrifying, EDGE OF DARK WATER is the result of real genius at work. A masterpiece.
Alternately scary, funny as hell, disturbing, but always (and most importantly) memorable.
Joe Lansdale has long been one of our finest and most difficult to classify writers... In EDGE OF DARK WATER he offers a beautifully spun tale of life in the sticks, friendship and mortality, and tells it with the wit, humor and pure-deep power we've come to expect of him.
Dark and comic, bleak and terrifying, romantic and endearing...This, I kid you not, is the Great American Novel of the year.