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Great stories of tweekers, wife beaters, perverts, and those tasked with bringing justice to the lot of them.
Crimes in Southern Indiana is an incredibly well-written connection of sorta-interconnected stories about rural Southern Indiana. Don't expect buttercups and rainbow sprinkles. These stories give a glimpse of the depths of human depravity and the violence that can spurt forth. Often the characters here are disconnected from society and have little left to loose. They are just trying to survive.
They range from domestic violence to meth dealer's revenge to a man willing to sell his granddaughter ...more
They range from domestic violence to meth dealer's revenge to a man willing to sell his granddaughter ...more
CRIMES IN SOUTHERN INDIANA by Frank Bill is an impressive collection of backwoods short stories involving crimes native to the rural geographic area, and several of them are intertwined with characters reappearing in subsequent stories. All of the stories involve crime and depravity that although fictional could be true of remote areas such as described here, and interesting to note that meth takes the place of moonshine as the #1 commodity causing all manner of social ills and multiple instance
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