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Stephen Graham Jones (Author)
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June 26, 2004
Deputy Sheriff Jim Doe plunges into a renegade manhunt after the Nazareth, Texas town 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. In time, 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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From Publishers Weekly

This second novel by Jones (The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong) follows Texas Deputy Sheriff Jim Doe in his chase after the Tin Man, a sociopath who has been abducting Indian children in the heartland for a decade. Jones, who is a member of the Blackfeet Nation, infuses this cleverly plotted detective story with Indian lore: the Tin Man enters Indian homes during tornadoes, always kidnapping a pair of children-a brother and sister-bringing to life an old Indian belief that storms sometimes take a malicious human form. As he tracks the Tin Man along dusty Texas highways and small towns across the country, Doe, who is also Indian, must face his own troubled family history, which includes a mother who abandoned his family and a sister who has been missing for nearly 20 years. The book masterfully plays with the serial killer genre, walking a line between convention and invention and delving into the psychology of both killer and detective. The plot is chilling in itself, but Jones's brisk, clean, visceral prose gives the novel its edgy suspense. Even a brief description of a mundane waiting room, for example, becomes unnerving when Jones describes the protagonists having "left the waiting room chairs at odd angles, the television looking down on them at a severe angle. The coins in Jim Doe's pants jingled as they walked. The hall was seventeen years long."
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Booklist

As the serial killer genre has grown in popularity, so has the body count. In Robert Bloch's masterpiece, Psycho, we had four victims, including two done in before the novel even begins. Now in this book, we have dozens of victims strewn along an Apian Way of viscera and gore. This sanguine saga is about a morose and languid Texas deputy sheriff, Jim Doe, who helps a team of FBI profilers track down the notorious "Tin Man." For the last 15 years, the killer has been abducting Indian children, including Doe's sister, during tornadoes. Now the Tin Man's activities are on the rise. Doe and the agents follow the killer back and forth from the heartland to the East Coast until you begin to wonder who is tracking who in this murderous old Land of Oz. For those who like their mayhem loaded on thick, this book will be a creepy double pleasure, but those sensitive to mountains of graphic violence, especially when directed toward children, might want to steer clear. David Hellman
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Rugged Land (June 26, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1590710312
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590710319
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,716,398 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Born and raised in Texas. Forty. Blackfeet. Into werewolves and slashers and zombies. Would wear pirate shirts a lot if I could find them. And probably carry some kind of sword. More over at http://demontheory.net.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars All The Beautiful Sinners, January 10, 2004
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This book challenges the reader to become involved in the story. I am so used to novels that are simply "bubble gum for the mind", that I had to start over about a quarter into the book and actually pay attention. This book is not "dumbed down". It is an adventure. The prose is beautiful. The storyline is complex, amazing and chilling. There are several different storylines that can be gleaned from this book if you choose to do so. I love Jim Doe and hope to read more books with him as a central character. This author has definitely gotten my attention!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Thrilling prose, October 13, 2003
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This book puts the thrill back in thriller. Not only is it edge-of-the-seat exciting, but the prose...just plain beautiful. One memorable image after another. I sure hope Jones brings back Jim Doe in a future book. I'll be watching for it.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Read This Book, May 17, 2006
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Daniel D. Butterworth (Georgetown, TX United States) - See all my reviews
Stephen Graham Jones's All the Beautiful Sinners is a spectacular thriller written with an elegant prose style and told with sharp, cinematic imagery. Its characters, often complex and kinetic, inhabit a harsh, unforgiving America-a place where serial killers are gods and children do their bidding.

This is not a book for the squeamish, nor for the lazy. It is an intelligent read. Characters talk like real people, react to their surroundings like real people would react, but live in an extraordinary environment. It is not a difficult book, but the reader must pay attention, as readers should for any book.

If you enjoy thoughtful writing, read it. You will inhabit its landscape, will walk (and sometimes run, sometimes cradling broken appendages) with its characters, and will come to love even the darkest edges of its menacing reality.

I highly recommend All the Beautiful Sinners to anyone who loves good writing.
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