Everyone in Kenton Hills knows that short-tempered, tongue-tied Bob
Talbert wasn't the one responsible for the brutal crime that ended Josie
Eddleman's life. Nevermind that he was the last one to see her alive.
But in a town filled with the likes of an amoral tabloid reporter known
only as The Captain, a district attorney who'll do anything for a
confession, and Bob's parents, who care as little for Bob as they do for
each other, guilt and innocence are little more than a matter of
perspective.
In a masterfully woven tapestry of multiple points of view, The
Criminal explores the nature of guilt and responsibility in a
psychological thriller of an entire town under the spell of an act of
brutal violence. Jim Thompson unlike you're ever read him before.