A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming
a cop, by master of noir James Sallis, author of Drive.
Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her
small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence,
court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage, and years slinging
scrambled eggs over greasy spoon griddles, Sarah Jane unfolds her life
story, a parable about memory, atonement, and finding shape in chaos.
Her life takes an unexpected turn when she is named the de facto sheriff
of a rural town, investigating the mysterious disappearance of the
sheriff whose shoes she's filling - and the even more mysterious
realities of the life he was hiding from his own colleagues and closest
friends. This kaleidoscopic character study sparkles in every dark and
bright detail - a virtuoso work by a master of both the noir and the
tender aspects of human nature.