Sunset and sawdust

By Joe R. Lansdale

Subjects: Police, Fiction, general, Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Romans, nouvelles, Fiction, Social life and customs, Texas, fiction

Description: A gripping crime thriller set in Texas at the start of the 1930s oil boom. When Pete Jones, the local constable, is shot dead, his widow, Sunset, finds herself in his job, investigating a series of brutal murders. Most of the townsfolk object to her wearing Pete's gun and badge, some because this is the 1930s and they think a woman's place is in the home, others because it was Sunset who blew off Pete's head in the first place.