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Dark Places: A Red River Mystery (Red River Mysteries)
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Dark Places: A Red River Mystery (Red River Mysteries) Hardcover - 2015 - 1st Edition

by Wortham, Reavis Z


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Top 10 Modern Westerns for 2016 by True West Magazine

Top Books for 2015 by Strand Magazine

"Reavis Z. Wortham is the real thing: a literary voice that's gut-bucket Americana delivered with a warm and knowing Texas twang." --CJ Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author

At the tail end of 1967, the Parker family once again finds it impossible to hide from a world spinning out of control. Fourteen-year-old Top still can't fit in with their Center Springs, Texas, community or forget recent, vicious crimes. His near-twin cousin Pepper, desperate to escape her own demons, joins the Flower Children flocking to California--just as two businessmen are kidnapped and murdered in the Red River bottoms on the same night a deadly hit and run kills a farmer. Constable Ned Parker wonders if these crimes are connected, but he goes after Pepper, leaving the investigation with Sheriff Cody Parker.

Parker hires Deputy Anna Sloan, an investigator with an eye toward detail as everyone is eyeing her. Yet it is instinct that propels her after killers through a world nearly forgotten, the hunt's backdrop one of continuous rain, gloomy skies, and floods. When she's ambushed, the investigation accelerates into gunfire, chases, and hair-raising suspense.

What of Pepper? Out on Route 66, the Mother Road to California, a man named Crow isn't what he seems. Lies, deceptions, and a band of outlaw motorcyclists proves to the Parkers that no matter where you turn, no matter what you do, the world is full of such darkness that even grandmothers are capable of unspeakable deeds.

Best Small Fictions of 2015 by The Dallas Morning News

Will Rogers Medallion Award 2016 Honorable Mention, Western Fiction

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  • Title Dark Places: A Red River Mystery (Red River Mysteries)
  • Author Wortham, Reavis Z
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 370
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Poisoned Pen Press, Scottsdale, Arizona
  • Date 2015-09
  • ISBN 9781464204227

About the author

Reavis Z. Wortham is the critically acclaimed author of the Red River Mysteries set in rural Northeast Texas in the 1960s. As a boy, he hunted and fished the river bottoms near Chicota, the inspiration for the fictional location. He is also the author of a thriller series featuring Texas Ranger Sonny Hawke. He teaches writing at a wide variety of venues including local libraries and writers' conferences. Wortham has been a newspaper columnist and magazine writer since 1988, and has been the Humor Editor for Texas Fish and Game Magazine for the past twenty-two years. He and his wife, Shana, live in Northeast Texas. Check out his website at www.reaviszwortham.com

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