Death at the Black Bull
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- 7,99 €
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- 7,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
Hayward is a sleepy Southwestern town full of cattle, trucks, and tumbleweeds. Virgil Dalton’s been the sheriff for over a dozen years and has lived there all his life. It’s a place where everybody pretty much knows everybody—but they don’t know each other’s secrets…
Buddy Hinton is just a good ole boy. So when he disappears after a night drinking at the Black Bull, his friends just figure he went down to Mexico to find himself a girlfriend and eventually will come back. But this case quickly becomes a homicide after the sheriff discovers the missing man floating in one of his stock tanks.
For a man who wasn’t known to have enemies, Buddy clearly upset someone. Figuring out who that was will require Virgil and his deputy, Jimmy, to retrace Buddy’s last steps—and to remain a step ahead of a murderer who may have no qualms about killing again …
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hayes's strong debut introduces a complex and likable lawman, Virgil Dalton, the sheriff of Hayward, Ariz., a small cattle town with some big-time crime. Soon after truck driver Buddy Hinton goes missing, last seen having a few beers with automotive go-to guy Wade Travis and others at the Black Bull bar, Buddy's body turns up in a stock tank. An employee of Hayward Ranch and Trucking, Buddy worked for the trucking operation run by Caleb Hayward, son of politically ambitious Micah and grandson of autocratic Audrey, who is also mother of Virgil's late wife, Rusty. Virgil concludes that more deaths will follow Buddy's murder, and they do. Virgil finds himself scrambling to protect possible witnesses as he tries to figure out why Buddy was killed and what role the Hayward family might have played. The mostly nuanced supporting cast may include a stereotype or two, but readers will want to see a lot more of Virgil and friends.
