Dixie Noir by Kirk Curnutt
In Kirk Curnutt's new thriller Dixie Noir, disgraced former Alabama football star Ennis Skinner is released from prison after ten years, and all he wants is to make his amends. Earning forgiveness isn't easy in an unforgiving town like Montgomery, Alabama, however--not in a Southern capital still haunted by its complicated legacy as the birthplace of both the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement.
Ennis is no sooner reunited with his ailing father--a one-time hero in the Movement--than he is drawn into investigating the disappearance of the daughter of the dead girlfriend responsible for his downfall. As a vulnerable nineteen-year-old incapable of distinguishing fantasy from reality, this girl--nicknamed "Dixie"--may just hold the key to mysteries that will determine whether Montgomery will put its past to rest by electing its first-ever African American mayor.
At once fast-paced and character driven, Dixie Noir is as sticky and overheated as an August afternoon in the land of cotton.
"Jim Thompson in the Deep South. Proof that noir will never die..." -- Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews
".... Sensitively explores still simmering racial tensions in the South and includes a lovely tribute to Zelda Fitzgerald...." --Publishers Weekly
Kirk Curnutt is the author of a previous novel, Breathing Out the Ghost, which won the Indiana Center for the Book's Best Books of Indiana Fiction Award in 2008. He's also the author of several other books, including Coffee with Hemingway, an imaginary conversation with the great writer, featuring a preface by John Updike.
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