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Salt River. By James Sallis. Jan. 2008. 160p. Walker, $21.95 (0-8027-1617-2).

Sallis' third and final Turner novel is hardly more than novella length, but even one more page would have been one page too many. Like a tightly structured blues song, the melancholy tale finds resonance in every line and every prolonged chord. It begins with Cypress Grove, Tennessee, deputy sheriff John Turner still grieving for his murdered lover, Val, who was shot in the closing pages of Cripple Creek (2006). The elegiac tone is sustained throughout the story, as Turner finds more reasons to grieve and more reasons to follow Val's advice "to see how much music you can make with what you have left" There is not much plot, really, but each incident in the present--the death ...

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