One Good and Deadly Deed
A Sheriff Luke McWhorter Mystery
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Publisher Description
Bodies are piling up in Flagler. For fans of Bones and Preacher comes a sharp supernatural police procedural set in the heart of Texas.
It was not Luke McWhorter’s plan to become a law enforcement officer when he left for Yale Divinity School. But three generations of his family had worn the star, and after graduation, the needs of his community called him home to serve and protect. His theological training and his seventeen-year career as sheriff suddenly collide when bodies start piling up in Flagler, Texas. Two pilots are found brutally murdered in McWhorter’s hometown, torn to pieces by their own plane’s propeller, next to an ominous warning written in blood on the hanger wall.
In this fast-moving whodunit, McWhorter needs all the help he can get. He is joined by his chief deputy, Charles “Chuck” Del Emma; his FBI-agent girlfriend, Angie Steele; a precocious college student; and a 4,000-year-old mummy. Together, they tackle a crime spree that reaches all the way to the Middle East and back to the time of Noah’s Ark.
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Lynch's amiably rambling sequel to 2019's A Fragment Too Far opens in a blood-drenched West Texas hanger, where two pilots were apparently shoved into the spinning propellers of their airplane. Sheriff Luke McWhorter is faced with a bewildering variety of explanations for the crime. The FBI, whose agents were tracking the pilots' flights to Mount Ararat in Turkey, suspects that WMD smuggling was involved. On the other hand, local fundamentalist showman Craft Roberts, who's about to open a glitzy Christian museum, may have hired the pilots to get artifacts from the biblical Ark for a museum exhibit and then decided to silence them. Or rogue Mossad agents might have been responsible. Meanwhile, the arrogant president of the Thesaurus of the Gene Corporation is dropping hints about extracting DNA from very old bones. Lynch plays with many threads and leaves most dangling, and the plot simply stops in a shoot-out at the hospital where a woman is giving birth to babies who may have been conceived with some highly unusual DNA. Readers should be prepared for a fun if frustrating ride.
