The Sky Took Him: An Alafair Tucker Mystery: Alafair Tucker Mysteries
Autor Donis Caseyen Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2008
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Oklahoma Book Award (2010), WILLA Literary Award (2010)
Itas a sad duty that brings Alafair Tucker to Enid, Oklahoma, in the fall of 1915. Her sister Ruth Annas husband, Lester, is not long for this world, and the family is gathering to send him to his reward. Alafair had planned to make the trip on her own with her youngest daughter Grace. So she is surprised and gratified when her eldest daughter Martha volunteers to come along and care for Grace, freeing Alafair to comfort the soon-to-be-bereaved.
But her nieceas irresponsible husband, Kenneth, has disappeared at a most inconvenient time. When it comes to light that Kenneth has been involved in some shady dealing with Buck Collinsathe most ruthless businessman in townaeveryone is convinced that Collins has done him in. In fact, no other possibility is considered, not by the family or by the local lawmen. But Alafair suspects that things are not so simple.
Over the next few days, Alafair and Martha come face-to-face with blackmail, intimidation, murder, and family secrets that stretch back over twenty years. And in the process, they discover things about each other that will change their relationship forever.
But her nieceas irresponsible husband, Kenneth, has disappeared at a most inconvenient time. When it comes to light that Kenneth has been involved in some shady dealing with Buck Collinsathe most ruthless businessman in townaeveryone is convinced that Collins has done him in. In fact, no other possibility is considered, not by the family or by the local lawmen. But Alafair suspects that things are not so simple.
Over the next few days, Alafair and Martha come face-to-face with blackmail, intimidation, murder, and family secrets that stretch back over twenty years. And in the process, they discover things about each other that will change their relationship forever.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781590585726
ISBN-10: 1590585720
Pagini: 385
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Poisoned Pen Press
Seria Alafair Tucker Mysteries
ISBN-10: 1590585720
Pagini: 385
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Poisoned Pen Press
Seria Alafair Tucker Mysteries
Recenzii
*STARRED REVIEW*
"Set in Enid, Okla., in 1915, Casey's smart fourth whodunit to feature farmer's wife Alafair Tucker (after 2007's /The Drop Edge of Yonder/) sensitively evokes smalltown life. The impending demise of Alafair's ill brother-in-law, Lester Yeager, raises concern about the future of the family storage company on the part of his prospective heirs. One of them, Yeager's son-in-law, Kenneth Crawford, has embezzled money from the company. Then Crawford's corpse, lacking any obvious cause of death, turns up in a meat locker. Tucker once again adds her insights into human nature to the official investigation, before arriving at a solution that most will find both logical and surprising. Since the murder occurs well on into the book, readers whose focus is on crime may be a little impatient for something beyond family dynamics and dysfunction to happen. Those who like their puzzles cloaked in local color from a different time will be amply rewarded." -- Publishers Weekly of The Sky Took Him
"Fans will welcome this fourth in an appealing historical series." -- Booklist of The Sky Took Him"Set in Enid, Okla., in 1915, Casey's smart fourth whodunit to feature farmer's wife Alafair Tucker (after 2007's /The Drop Edge of Yonder/) sensitively evokes smalltown life. The impending demise of Alafair's ill brother-in-law, Lester Yeager, raises concern about the future of the family storage company on the part of his prospective heirs. One of them, Yeager's son-in-law, Kenneth Crawford, has embezzled money from the company. Then Crawford's corpse, lacking any obvious cause of death, turns up in a meat locker. Tucker once again adds her insights into human nature to the official investigation, before arriving at a solution that most will find both logical and surprising. Since the murder occurs well on into the book, readers whose focus is on crime may be a little impatient for something beyond family dynamics and dysfunction to happen. Those who like their puzzles cloaked in local color from a different time will be amply rewarded." -- Publishers Weekly of The Sky Took Him
Premii
- Oklahoma Book Award Finalist, 2010
- WILLA Literary Award Finalist, 2010