C. Joseph Greaves. (2012). Hard Twisted: A Novel. Bloomsbury Publishing.

C. Joseph Greaves. 2012. Hard Twisted: A Novel. Bloomsbury Publishing.

C. Joseph Greaves, Hard Twisted: A Novel. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.

C. Joseph Greaves. Hard Twisted: A Novel. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.

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   • bioText: C. Joseph Greaves is a former L.A. trial lawyer now based in Santa Fe. His discovery of two human skulls in a remote Utah canyon would lead, eighteen years later, to the completion of Hard Twisted, named Best Historical Novel of 2010 in the South West Writers international writing contest, in which Greaves was also honored with the grand-prize Storyteller Award. Greaves is also writing an L.A.-based mystery series; the first installment, Hush Money, will be published by Minotaur in spring 2012. www.chuckgreaves.com
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In May of 1934, outside of Hugo, Oklahoma, a homeless man and his thirteen-year-old daughter are befriended by a charismatic drifter, newly released from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. The drifter, Clint Palmer, lures father and daughter to Texas, where the father, Dillard Garrett, mysteriously disappears, and where his daughter Lucile begins a one-year ordeal as Palmer's captive on a crime spree-culminating in the notorious Greenville, Texas "skeleton murder" trial of 1935.
C. Joseph Greaves weaves a chilling tale of survival and redemption, encompassing iconic landscapes, historic figures, America's last Indian uprising, and one of the most celebrated criminal trials of the Public Enemy era, all rooted in the intensely personal story of a young girl's coming of age in a world as cruel as it is beautiful.

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   • source: Los Angeles Times
   • content: A kind of Dust Bowl Lolita . . . A gritty, gripping read.
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   • content: Impressive . . . A strong literary voice who can render period with authority and violence without sensationalism.
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   • source: The Guardian
   • content: A superb first novel, based on a true story . . . written in a style that is the prose equivalent of a Dorothea Lange photograph . . . Extraordinarily moving reading.
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   • source: Library Journal (starred review)
   • content: [A] compelling novel . . . Readers can't help but open their hearts to Lottie . . . Her story with all its gritty details and twists deserves wide readership
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   • source: Vincent Bugliosi, author of Helter Skelter and Four Days in November
   • content: Hard Twisted is fictional crime, with an exceptional true story as its spine, written in prose as stylish and engaging as one will find... [A] compelling saga of murder, mystery, and good and evil at its rawest in the hardscrabble rural Southwest of the 1930s.
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     July 30, 2012
     Greaves follows his debut, Hush Money (as Chuck Greaves), with this impressive fictional recounting of Depression-era drifter Clint Palmer’s real-life killing spree, told largely from the limited perspective of his 13-year-old girlfriend, Lottie Lucile Garret. Soon after the homeless Lottie meets him on the road in Oklahoma, her father disappears, and Lottie finds herself traveling alone with Clint through the American Southwest, gradually realizing that the ex-con is not just a charismatic, amoral hustler but a murderous psychopath. Their aimless, often harrowing odyssey sketches out a picture of 1934–1935 America struggling to cling to bedrock Christian values in the face of a precarious daily existence. Named the Best Historical Novel of 2010 in the SouthWest Writers International Writing Contest, this crime tale at times too closely recalls antecedents, from Horace McCoy to Cormac McCarthy, but otherwise shows Greaves as a strong literary voice who can render period with authority and violence without sensationalism. Agent: Antonella Iannarino, the David Black Agency.

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     Barely a teenager, Lottie Garrett has already known hard times. It's 1934, and the Depression is in full sway in Oklahoma. Lottie and her father scrape by, roaming the countryside in search of food and shelter. Eventually they meet Clint Palmer, cocksure and scrappy, who draws them into his world of anger and death. Clint drags Lottie across the Southwest, leaving a trail of bodies behind them. Rescued finally by his arrest, Lottie is also put on trial. Told in a chilling, matter-of-fact tone, this compelling novel, which is based on an actual 1935 case, was deservedly named Best Historical Novel of 2010 in the SouthWest Writers International writing contest. VERDICT Readers can't help but open their hearts to Lottie. She's caught in a world not of her own making but remains true to herself. Her story with all its gritty details and twists deserves wide readership. [The author also writes mysteries as Chuck Greaves (Hush Money).--Ed.]--Jan Blodgett, Davidson Coll. Lib., NC

     Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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C. Joseph Greaves weaves a chilling tale of survival and redemption, encompassing iconic landscapes, historic figures, America's last Indian uprising, and one of the most celebrated criminal trials of the Public Enemy era, all rooted in the intensely personal story of a young girl's coming of age in a world as cruel as it is beautiful.

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