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THE WRONG HILL TO DIE ON Author: Donis Casey Published: November 1, 2012 by Poisoned Pen Press Series Name: Alafair Tucker Mysteries Category: Historical Mystery Main Character: Alafair Tucker, Shaw Tucker, Blanche Tucker Murder and illness, rumors of war, rain and floods worthy of the Bible. Nineteen-sixteen was not shaping up to be a good year for Alafair Tucker, and finding Bernie Arruda dead in a ditch wasn’t going to help matters. Click for more info. |
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CRYING BLOOD Author: Donis Casey Published: February 1, 2011 by Poisoned Pen Press Series Name: Alafair Tucker Mysteries Category: Historical Mystery Main Character: Alafair Tucker, Shaw Tucker In the autumn of 1915, Shaw Tucker, his brother James, and their sons, go on a hunting trip to the derelict farm his stepfather had bought years before. Instead of a quail, Shaw’s dog, Buttercup, retrieves an old boot with the bones of a foot inside. Buttercup then leads the men to a shallow grave and a skeleton with a bullet hole in the skull. Click for more info. |
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The Sky Took Him Author: Donis Casey Published: December 8, 2008 by Poisoned Pen Press Series Name: An Alafair Tucker Mystery Category: Historical Mystery Main Character: Alafair tucker, Martha tucker, Grace Tucker, Ruth Ann Yeager, Olivia Crawford, Lester Yeager, Pee Wee Nickolls Alafair Tucker came to Enid, Oklahoma, to comfort her sister,Ruth Ann, whose husband Lester is dying. When her niece's irresponsible husband, kenneth, goes missing, the town is quick to blame it on his shady dealings with ruthless business man Buck Collins. But Alafair's intuition tells her otherwise. Alafair and her oldest daughter, martha, work against the odds to discover the truth - even if it means airing out some family secrets. Click for more info. |
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The Drop Edge of Yonder Author: Donis Casey Published: October 1, 2007 by Poisoned Pen Press Series Name: Alafair Tucker Mysteries Category: Historical mystery Main Character: Alafair Tucker, Shaw Tucker, Mary Tucker, Bill McBride, Laura Ross Who killed Uncle Bill? Alafair Tucker is desperate to find out. One August evening in 1914, a bushwhacker ended a pleasant outing by blowing a hole in Bill McBride, kidnapping and ravaging Bill's fiancee, and wounding Alafair's daughter Mary. All Mary knows is that the crime had something to do with the Fourth of July. Or is there more? The answer seems to be working its way through the fog of Mary's shock and grief and floating to the surface of her consciousness. Several malicious acts suggest that Bill's killer is still around and attempting to cover his tracks. Click for more info. |
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Hornswoggled Author: Donis Casey Published: September 4, 2006 by Poisoned Pen Press Series Name: Alafair Tucker Mysteries Category: Mystery - historical Main Character: Alafair Tucker, Shaw Tucker, Alice Tucker, Walter Kelley It's the spring of 1913, and love is in bloom for Alice Tucker. Alice's new beau, Walter Kelley, is handsome, popular, and wealthy. Everyone in Boynton, Oklahoma, likes him. Everyone but Alice's mother, Alafair. She sees that Walter has a weakness for the ladies -- and they for him. Moreover, Walter's late wife Lousie had been stabbed in the heart and her body disposed of in Cane Creek only a few months earlier. The murderer has not been caught. Click for more info. |
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The Old Buzzard Had It Coming Author: Donis Casey Published: July 7, 2005 by Poisoned Pen Press Series Name: Alafair Tucker Mysteries Category: Mystery - historical. Main Character: Alafair Tucker, Shaw Tucker, Phoebe Tucker, John Lee Day, Harley Day One winter evening in 1912, in the woods outside of Boynton, Oklahoma, abusive and drunken Harley Day surprises his son John Lee and the neighbor girl Phoebe Tucker in a lovers' tryst. An hour later, when John Lee walks his beloved home, Phoebe's mother, Alafair Tucker, suspects that something is amiss. How could she know that her daughter has been involved in a violent confrontation that will make Phoebe and her beau murder suspects? Click for more info. |
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