Dead Moon on the Rise
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Publisher Description
In spite of some predictable nervousness common in new bridegrooms, things look pretty good for Milt Kovak as he is joined in matrimony to his pregnant lover Jean. After four outings as undersheriff, he is running unopposed for the chief honcho spot—sheriff of Prophesy County, Oklahoma.
His house is once more his home since baby sister Jewel departed with her brood to join her new spouse, the election looks like a shoo-in, and although Prophesy County is having its share of crime, Milt isn't really worried.
Hah!
Back from the honeymoon, Jean and baby sister clash over a question of home decoration. Milt ends up in the middle—and alone on the couch at night.
Then he learns that his handsome, smooth old buddy Wade Moon has surfaced from Oklahoma City and is back—and running against him in the election. People like Wade.
When news comes that Milt is once more unopposed, it is no help, because someone has removed Wade from contention by bashing him on the head and dropping him in a lake in the next county up. And guess who is the most likely suspect? Can you be under suspicion of murder and win an election for top lawman at the same time?
Milt Kovak, in his previous adventures, has gained a growing number of admirers with his down-home humor and appealing humanity. They'll be rooting for him as he pursues his troubled way in this one.
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The fifth Milt Kovak cop caper (after Chasing Away the Devil ) finds the good ol' boy lawman newly married to pregnant psychiatrist Jean McDonnell and very surprised when his former co-worker and pal Wade Moon returns to Prophesy County, Okla. Thirteen years before, Wade had left town--and a wife and two daughters--with 16-year-old Gayla, to whom he's now married. Milt figures Wade's ex may still be mad, but he's even more concerned when Wade announces that he's running for Sheriff, against Milt, in the upcoming election. Then Wade's body turns up in a lake in nearby Tejas County the day after he and Milt go fishing there. The Tejas County sheriff expects Prophesy's sheriff to help solve the crime, but Milt, busy mediating between his new wife and his busybody sister, offers only cursory assistance--until he finds himself the chief suspect. By this time, he has a big problem in his own district, where an animal mutilator has struck the local shelter. Readers may initially resist Milt's understated humor and Cooper's Keystone Kop routines, but the sassy approach exerts an increasing appeal, making this an entertaining farce.
