Nazareth, Texas

Deputy Sher­iff Jim Doe plunges into a rene­gade man­hunt after the town’s sher­iff is gunned down. But unbe­knownst to him, the suspect—an Amer­i­can Indian—holds chill­ing con­nec­tions to the dis­ap­pear­ance of Doe’s sis­ter years before. And the closer Doe gets to the fugitive’s trail, the more he real­izes that his own involve­ment in the case is hardly coin­ci­den­tal. A descen­dant of the Black­feet Nation him­self, Doe keeps get­ting mis­taken for the killer he’s chas­ing. And when the FBI’s finest three pro­fil­ers descend on the case, Doe sus­pects the hunt has only just begun.

But beneath the novel’s pyrotech­nic plot­ting, the deeper psy­chic cadences of Stephen Gra­ham Jones’s prose take hold. His spe­cific imagery and telling detail coa­lesce into the lit­er­ary equiv­a­lent of an Edward Hop­per paint­ing. But like the other sem­i­nal works in the genre (Fight Club, Red Dragon), All The Beau­ti­ful Sin­ners will unnerve you, and it will then send you back to page one to expe­ri­ence its mys­ter­ies all over again.

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