Highway Robbery

by John Billheimer | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 0373264046 Global Overview for this book
Registered by samosetgetaway of Marshfield, Massachusetts USA on 11/10/2003
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Journal Entry 1 by samosetgetaway from Marshfield, Massachusetts USA on Monday, November 10, 2003
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.

Released on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 at Dunkin' Donuts across from Maguire Chevrolet in Marshfield, Massachusetts USA.

Left in entrance way....

Journal Entry 3 by VH-50 at Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts USA on Sunday, April 21, 2013
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.

Journal Entry 4 by VH-50 at Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts USA on Saturday, September 7, 2013
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 . . .

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