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Also by J. Todd Scott:

Scar the Sky, September 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Call the Dark, September 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Lost River, July 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Lost River, July 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
This Side of Night, May 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book / audiobook (reprint)
This Side of Night, July 2019
Hardcover
High White Sun, June 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Far Empty, March 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
High White Sun, March 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Far Empty, February 2018
Trade Size
The Far Empty, June 2016
Hardcover / e-Book

THE FAR EMPTY
By: J. Todd Scott

G.P. Putnam's Sons
June 2016
On Sale: June 7, 2016
ISBN: 0399176349
EAN: 9780399176340
Kindle: B01BD1STMA
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mass Market Paperback (March 2018)

Thriller

In this gritty crime debut set in the stark Texas borderlands, an unearthed skeleton will throw a small town into violent turmoil.

Seventeen-year-old Caleb Ross is adrift in the wake of the sudden disappearance of his mother more than a year ago, and is struggling to find his way out of the small Texas border town of Murfee. Chris Cherry is a newly minted sheriff’s deputy, a high school football hero who has reluctantly returned to his hometown. When skeletal remains are discovered in the surrounding badlands, the two are inexorably drawn together as their efforts to uncover Murfee’s darkest secrets lead them to the same terrifying suspect: Caleb’s father and Chris’s boss, the charismatic and feared Sheriff Standford “Judge” Ross. Dark, elegiac, and violent, The Far Empty is a modern Western, a story of loss and escape set along the sharp edge of the Texas border. Told by a longtime federal agent who knows the region, it’s a debut novel you won’t soon forget.