The Old Buzzard Had It Coming

Цена 13.18 - 18.90 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781590583111

Брэнд Poisoned Pen Press

Автор


Страниц 228

Год выпуска 2012

Praise for The Old Buzzard Had It Coming... "As vivid and unforgettable as a crimson Oklahoma sunset...a book to savor-lyrical, authentic, and heart-warming." -Carolyn Hart "Alafair Tucker deserves to stand beside Ma Joad in literature"s gallery of heroic ladies." -Tony Hillerman Alafair Tucker is a strong woman, the core of family life on a farm in Oklahoma where the back-breaking work and daily logistics of caring for her husband Shaw, their nine children, and being neighborly requires hard muscle and a clear head. She"s also a woman of strong opinions, and it is her opinion that her neighbor, Harley Day, is a drunkard and a reprobate. So, when Harley"s body is discovered frozen in a snowdrift one January day in 1912, she isn"t surprised that his long-suffering family isn"t exactly grieving. Helping Harley"s wife prepare the body for burial, Alafair discovers that Harley"s demise was anything but natural-there is a bullet lodged behind his ear. She"s...