Branches

Description

From the author of A Slight Trick of the Mind: A hybrid of Stephen King and Jim Thompson  that follows the thoughts of a troubled Texas lawman (Booklist). Branches is a novel at once cautionary and starkly provocative, set in the gnarled hide of West Texas  near the end of the 20th century. Sheriff Branches finds himself returning to his childhood home, revisiting his bleak childhood while contemplating a series of mysterious dog poisonings in his small community. In discovering the painful truth behind the crimes, he must also delve into his own violent past. As both a boy and a man, Branches embodies the very arbitrary nature of Justice; he roams through a grim landscape where nothing is as it appears, taking the reader headlong toward an unsettling, horrific resolution. (Source: Google Books API)