Cottonwood

Praise for Cottonwood
 
"[Phillips] writes about criminal behaviors . . . with wit and gusto . . . That Ogden stays unpredictable to the end is a tribute to [Phillips's] refusal to rewrite history and whitewash the hellions who built this nation."
--The New York Times Book Review
 
"An indelible portrait of a haunted town, as starkly delineated and unsparing as an antique tintype."
--Entertainment Weekly
 
"An adventurous, bawdy, and genre-bending epic. Scott Phillips cements his reputation as a fearless, ambitious writer who never makes a false move."
--George Pelecanos
 
"Scott Phillips is dark, dangerous, and important. Cottonwood is crime fiction at its best."
--Michael Connelly
 
"Unique and pungent prose . . . It's not Phillips's thoughtful, exciting plotting but rather his amazing ear for the sad sounds behind the words of his people that make his novels so exceptional."
--Chicago Tribune
 
"Gunfights and murders, lynchings and thefts . . . It is Western-noir with a touch of the gothic."
--Rocky Mountain News
 
"Phillips takes the reader on a witty ride into a sometimes humorous, sometimes grotesque version of life on the Kansas prairie."
--Winston-Salem Journal
 
"In a book that is as much history as mystery, Scott Phillips makes the dirt streets and rough life of the Kansas prairie come alive."
--Kansas City Star
 
"[Phillips] not only has hit the literary equivalent of three homers in a row with his first three novels, but each one has been a grand slam."
--Chicago Sun-Times

"The blazingly original Phillips writes with deadpan humor and incisive irony . . . A major achievement."
--Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review