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Crime Fiction Set in Tennessee
The novels of T.H. Malcolm explore rural Tennessee—from courthouse towns and backroad communities to the shadowed ridges of the Appalachian Plateau.
These stories belong to the tradition of Southern noir and Appalachian crime fiction, where community history and personal loyalty shape the consequences of violence.
Snake Pond
Between Hope and Hell
A Quiet Death
Hell to the Bone
Peace of My Heart
Lakestone School for Boys
Losing Shane
Finding Sheridan
Burningtree
Devil's Notch
Featured Southern Noir Novels By Dannah Lynn
On the Dime
These stories form part of a broader Tennessee crime universe spanning Franklin, Grundy, Marion, Coffee, Lincoln, Marion, and surrounding counties as well as Cheatham and Davidson Counties and Nashville.
For readers curious about the philosophy behind these stories, see the essay What Noir Is — And What It Ain’t in the Dead After Dark journal.
The novels are also part of a broader body of crime fiction by T.H. Malcolm and Dannah Lynn.
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