Black Spring Press
The Salt Cutter
The Salt Cutter
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Written by C.J Howell, The Salt Cutter is part of our Black Spring Crime Series, endorsed by UK crime fiction giants, Ian Rankin and Lee Child. The Salt Cutter was a finalist in the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society’s William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, and was short listed for the Big Moose Prize.
Bolivia. 1991. A soldier arrives in the small town of Uyuni. A place where people endure rather than enjoy. Survive than live. The soldier knows they’re coming for him. Hunting him down so they can deal their own brand of justice. He needs to get out. To make it to the border and escape what is waiting for him. He’s prepared to do anything to survive. Even kill.
This is noir fiction at its finest. With characters that you will root for, heartbreak and breathtaking writing, this is a story that will linger in reader’s minds long after you’ve turned the final page.
Read the Author Q&A blog post with C.J Howell HERE
Silver Falchion Award Finalist
The 2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Finalists are a diverse collection of the Top 6 Silver Falchion manuscripts of 2024, as determined by our judges, representing the best books published in 2023. The Salt Cutter was recognised as a finalist in the Literary category. A huge congratulations to CJ for this incredible honour.
C.J. Howell
is the author of two previously published novels. The Last of The Smoking Bartenders received a starred review and was named a Best Crime Fiction Debut of 2014 by Booklist. The Hundred Mile View is a fast-paced thriller set on the Navajo Nation. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder’s Creative Writing Program, and he currently lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his wife and two children.