See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
A Tommy Smith High Country Noir, Book Three
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $24.99
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Publisher Description
"Mr. Paul, a veteran rancher as well as an author, writes fine action scenes, and his descriptions of nature and animals can seem just as thrilling." —Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal
For readers of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, a taut, fast-moving contemporary thriller that builds to an explosive, action-filled conclusion.
The third book in the acclaimed western thriller series that debuted with Under Tower Peak—named one of the Ten Best Mysteries of the Year by the Wall Street Journal—See That My Grave Is Kept Clean once again features Iraq War sniper and Eastern Sierra packer Tommy Smith. With his new wife, Deputy Sheriff Sarah Cathcart, and their baby daughter, he is building a home and a new life as he opens his own pack outfit in the high country of his youth.
When a young girl is reported lost in the canyon above their home, Tommy leads the search, but instead of the missing child, he discovers a corpse that may hold the key to a long-unsolved local bank theft and a fortune in stolen cash. The FBI is called in. Though Tommy tries not to get involved, the promise of easy money has lured unsavory characters from the hard streets of Reno, and speculation about the missing cash is undermining the social fabric of their little town.
Facing threats to his family and the way of life he is fighting to preserve, Tommy must call on all his skills to uncover the connection between the missing girl and the long-dead body—a link that will inevitably lead to an explosive showdown deep in the Sierra wilderness.
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Early in Paul's exciting third contemporary western thriller featuring former U.S. Army sniper Tommy Smith (after 2016's Cheatgrass), Tommy, who has returned to his childhood home in the Sierra Nevada Mountains to start up a business as a trail guide and build a home for his growing family, joins the search for a missing 10-year-old child. In the process, he discovers a young woman's body in a pond. For Tommy, the dead woman is "somehow familiar but as vague as a bad dream." She's subsequently identified as Erika Hornberg, who's suspected of having embezzled $1 million from the bank she managed. Soon the countryside is crawling with thugs from Reno, Nev., leaving Tommy to ponder the connections among the lost child, the dead banker, and the missing money. A thoughtful man, Tommy is slow to anger but quick to defend those in need, as he does with gusto in the explosive finale. Clean, elegant prose compensates for the thin mystery plot. Readers will welcome Paul's comfortable world, with its loving relationship between Paul and his wife, appealing animals, and true friends.
