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    Cypress Grove
    Cypress Grove
    Cypress Grove
    Audiobook6 hours

    Cypress Grove

    Written by James Sallis

    Narrated by Alan Nebelthau

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    About this audiobook

    James Sallis, author of the Lew Griffin detective stories, has been praised as one of Southern literature's most original voices. In Cypress Grove, a murder with eerie connections to the past brings a man back to his calling. Turner was a homicide cop long ago, until he got mixed up in the wrong case and ended up behind bars himself. Now retired to a cabin in a small Southern town, Turner's been recruited by the local Sheriff to help solve a bizarre and gruesome case.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 11, 2008
    ISBN9781436116718
    Cypress Grove
    Author

    James Sallis

    James Sallis has published sixteen novels, multiple collections of short stories, essays, and poems, books of musicology, a biography of Chester Himes, and a translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Saint Glinglin. He has written about books for the LA Times, New York Times, and Washington Post, and for some years served as a books columnist for the Boston Globe. He has received a lifetime achievement award from Bouchercon, the Hammett Award for literary excellence in crime writing, and the Grand Prix de Littérature policière.

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    • 5/5
      John Turner was leading a low-key life until he heard the Jeep coming down the dirt road to his isolated house. Sheriff Bates needs some big-city police assistance investigating a brutal murder. Turner, former policeman, couldn't say no.

      One doesn't read James Sallis solely for the story. One reads him primarily for the literature, how he weaves Turner's past and present into a cohesive whole. As the present unwinds in front of the reader, so does Turner's past in separate chapters.

      This is my second Sallis read and I'm planning on going through his entire fiction catalog.
    • 4/5
      I was intrigued by Sallis when I found out he had written Drive. I decided to read this one rather than Drive because I had so recently seen the movie. The book is full of pain but very well written. It grabs you and pulls you through Turner's world. Don't read it if you are melancholy.
    • 4/5
      Cypress Grove and its sequels, Cripple Creek and Salt River, are a trilogy of lyrical crime novels by James Sallis. His prose is beautiful and his characters wonderful. The world of these novels is one of unremitting violence and good people get hurt or killed all the time, although those same people are able to find one another and some comfort in music and one another. Read all three but space them out a bit and read something optimistic after each Sallis novel.
    • 5/5
      This was a wonderful book. The author has the elements of the story come together like partners in a tango. Deep emotions held in control as the music of life swirls around and the past and the present are brought together in a satisfying climax. Already the next in the Turner series is in the mail, I look forward to it.

      I did not know it but the three books in this series were available in an omnibus, the cost of which is now is not in my range.
    • 4/5
      A lot of mood, a lot of character development, a lot of originality. It's not a mystery in the cookie cutter, standardized sense of the genre: it's a mood piece set in the deep south that is also about a murder and an investigation. Sallis is now getting more attention because he wrote the novel upon which the Ryan Gosling movie "Drive" is based. More people need to discover Sallis. I look forward to more books in this and other series by him.
    • 5/5
      Cypress Grove has a murder to be solved but the crime is almost incidental. It is a story about character, acceptance, reconciling with the past, and perhaps redemption.

      Turner (no first name) was on his way to a scholarly life when the Vietnam War intervened. When he returned from war he joined the Memphis, Tennessee police department rather than restarting his education. He quickly rises to detective, enjoys the success of a high clearance rate, but never fits in, an outsider. During a domestic disturbance call he makes a split second reaction to an event and shoots and kills his partner.

      He is sent to prison for three years for the killing. There he resumes his education, earns a master's degree. Just before his release, he kills another inmate in self-defense, serves more time, and earns a master's in psychology.

      Out of prison he becomes a psychotherapist, mostly seeing the acutely troubled ones -- those at the edge of violence. One day Turner looks into a mirror and

      "I saw something I'd not seen before. It didn't last, but for the moment it was there, I recognized it for what it was. Grace, of a sort. Wherever it was I had been heading all these years, I'd arrived. I had simply to off-load cargo now."

      He moves to a cabin on a lake with his books and begins a quiet, contemplative life.

      One day Sheriff Bates shows up with a bottle of Wild Turkey. How Lonnie and Turner begin their relationship is a wonderful piece of writing that captures the essence of small town South:

      "Folks around here don't move fast. They grow up respecting other folks' homes, their land and privacy, whatever lines have been drawn, some of them invisible. Respecting the history of the place, too. They sidle up, as they say; ease into things. Maybe that's why I was there."

      A body has been found, ritualistically posed. The sheriff admits that he is out of his depth with this kind of case and asks Turner to help. Turner joins the sheriff and his deputy Don Lee as a consultant and two things happen: they begin the investigation and Turner begins to integrate himself back into society.

      There is much to like about this book. There is Sallis' writing. Nearly every page has a phrase, sentence, paragraph that is a gem of concise writing. Crime Scene NI says this of Ken Bruen as well which accounts for Sallis and Bruen being two of my favorite authors.

      Then there is what the book doesn't contain. There isn't the testosterone laden conflict and threats between the law and the ex-con; the resentment of the deputy; the reluctance of Turner to get involved. Turner is open about his life and, in turn, the sheriff and deputy and townspeople see the kind of man he is and accept him.

      The case itself is interesting and the search for background on the victim and motive for his murder well developed and intriguing but it is the development of the characters that makes this one of my favorite reads.

      Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      Well written. Evocative of rural south. A page turner. First of a series (so far three), followed by Cripple Creek, and Salt River
    • 4/5
      First: is that a gorgeous cover or what???

      This is, even in a genre of strongly male work, a man's book. The characters are so relentlessly male - sitting and drinking for hours without talking, flashing anger and moving on (women do this differently, with a complex web of grudges and forgiveness)...and the women, while not bad characters, strike me as very much observed, not necessarily understood.

      But none of this is a bad thing, is it? It's not even key to the book, just my most dominant lingering impression.

      I liked the episodic visits to the past and back. The stories sketch a building picture of present-day Turner as he works his way reluctantly through his current fix.

      Thought it went just a bit off the rails at the end, with the wrap-up. I liked this part less; found the dip into old Hollywood out of place. I just couldn't get my head around what the crime would mean to Turner, how it would change him.
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