Salt River

Salt River Synopsis

The final book of the Turner trilogyJohn Turner - ex-policeman, ex-con, war veteran and former therapist - has come to escape his past. But the past proved inescapable; thrust into the role of Deputy Sheriff, Turner finds himself at the centre of his new community, one that, like so many others, is drying up, disappearing before his eyes. Two years have passed since Turner's amour, Val Bjorn, was shot as they sat together on the porch of his cabin. 'Sometimes you just have to see how much music you can make with what you have left', Val had told him, and that becomes Turner's mantra. Then the sheriff's long-lost son comes ploughing down Main Street into City Hall in what appears to be a stolen car. And waiting at Turner's cabin is his good friend, Eldon Brown, Val's banjo on the back of his motorcycle. 'They think I killed someone,' he says. Turner asks: 'Did you?' And Eldon responds: 'I don't know.'Haunted by his own ghosts, Turner nonetheless goes in search of a truth he's not sure he can live with. 'As we come to expect from Sallis, Salt River is filled with insight, redemption and tantalizing passages' - Woody Haut, Crime Time'James Sallis is a superb writer' - TimesDon't miss the other books in the Turner trilogy, Cypress Grove and Cripple Creek and look out for James Sallis' Lew Griffin series.