Highway Robbery
2 journalers for this copy...
In his second mystery after The Contrary Blues, largely unemployed risk consultant Owen Allsion returns to Barkley, WV, at the request of his other when a raod construction crew uncovers a skeleton. She believes the remains may be honest highway commissioner, who supposedly drowned in a dam collapse some 35 years earlier. So Owen delves into his family past and highway scandals, defends his brother (also a highway commissioner) who suddenly disappears, and looks for at leat one murderer. Low-key, competent narration; country characters, dry humor, and a surprise culprit; for most collections.
Journal Entry 2 by samosetgetaway at Dunkin' Donuts across from Maguire Chevrolet in Marshfield, Massachusetts USA on Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Released on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 at Dunkin' Donuts across from Maguire Chevrolet in Marshfield, Massachusetts USA.
Left in entrance way....
Left in entrance way....
Wow! This one's been out in the world for a while! :-)
I picked it up off the shelf at my local (Vineyard Haven, MA) library's monthly book sale this afternoon, just because it looked interesting . . . the BookCrossing label inside the front cover was an unexpected, but wonderful, bonus.
It is, I think, the first wild-release book I've caught with absolutely no prior knowledge of its existence or whereabouts. SO cool . . .
It's on my TBR pile now, and when I'm done with it, I'll set it loose in the world again.
I picked it up off the shelf at my local (Vineyard Haven, MA) library's monthly book sale this afternoon, just because it looked interesting . . . the BookCrossing label inside the front cover was an unexpected, but wonderful, bonus.
It is, I think, the first wild-release book I've caught with absolutely no prior knowledge of its existence or whereabouts. SO cool . . .
It's on my TBR pile now, and when I'm done with it, I'll set it loose in the world again.
A solid amateur-detective story that does great things with its West Virginia setting, and says some interesting things about going home to a town you left behind long ago, but gets bogged down too often in standard-issue soap-opera in the subplots . . .