Cimarron Rose
- Authors: James Lee Burke
- Series: Book 1 in the Billy Bob Holland series
- Type: Novel
- Genres: Mystery
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- Rating: 4.4 based on 1,670 reviews
- Release Date: August 1, 1997
- Print length: 304 pages (Hardcover)
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About the book
Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer Billy Bob Holland is convinced of Lucas's innocence but proving it means unearthing the truth from a seething mass of deceit and corruption. A corruption endemic in the way it can be only in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else's business. Billy Bob's relationship with Lucas's family is not an easy one years back he was a close friend of Mrs Smothers, too close according to her husband Vernon. And when Lucas overhears gruesome tales of serial murder from a neighbouring cell in the local lock up, the waters are muddied even further and Lucas himself looks like a candidate for an untimely death.
Accolades
Barry Award for Best Novel 1998 (nominee)
Edgar Award for Best Novel 1998