Twilight

Twilight is a 2006 novel by William Gay, a Tennessee writer known for his Southern Gothic fiction, including The Long Home and Provinces of Night. It is set in rural Tennessee in the 1950s. After their father dies, teenage Kenneth Tyler and his sister suspect the local undertaker, Fenton Breece, of abusing the dead. Kenneth finds evidence, and Breece hires Granville Sutter, a violent killer, to get it back. The chase sends Kenneth into a wild forest called the Harrikin, full of eccentric and dangerous people.

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Stephen King: “Think No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy, and Deliverance, by James Dickey. . . then double the impact.”