Sarah Jane

About this book

A spare sparkling tour de force about one womans journey to becoming a cop by master of noir James Sallis author of Drive. Sarah Jane Pullman is a cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence court-ordered Army stint ill-advised marriage and years slinging scrambled eggs over greasy spoon griddles Sarah Jane unfolds her life story a parable about memory atonement and finding shape in chaos. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she is named the de facto sheriff of a rural town investigating the mysterious disappearance of the sheriff whose shoes shes fillingand the even more mysterious realities of the life he was hiding from his own colleagues and closest friends. This kaleidoscopic character study sparkles in every dark and bright detaila virtuoso work by a master of both and the tender aspects of human nature.