Introducing...Edge of Dark Water by Joe R. Lansdale

Introducing books through the first chapter or so... 

That summer, Daddy went from telephoning and dynamiting fish to poisoning them with green walnuts. The dynamite was messy, and a couple years before he'd somehow got two fingers blown off, and the side of his face had a burn spot that at first glance looked like a lipstick kiss and at second glance looked like some kind of rash.

-- Edge of Dark Water by Joe R. Lansdale