The story has an interesting mix of nostalgia and horror as Harry reflects on his youth in the rural community, a place that is beautifully simple as well as horrific in equal measure. This novel is like a cross between Where the Red Fern Grows and To Kill a Mockingbird with a serial killer thrown into the mix. This discovery sets off a string of events where Harry’s father Jacob, the local constable, investigates a string of similar murders and the racist underbelly of the community of Marvel Creek, Texas comes to light. The Bottoms is an Edgar award-winning novel that is told in first-person by Harry Collins, an old man in a rest home, that reflects on his time as a boy in the 1930s, when he and his younger sister discover the corpse of a prostitute in the forest near their home.
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