The Bramble and the Rose: A Henry Farrell Novel
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3.1 • 21 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The newest Henry Farrell mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author of Dry Bones in the Valley.
A headless stranger is found in the woods of Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, and all signs point to a man-killing bear. Officer Henry Farrell would just as soon leave this hunt to the Game Commission, but doubts arise when he discovers the victim was a retired investigator. What drew the investigator to sleepy Wild Thyme? Before Henry can find answers, his own nephew disappears into the hills. Then an old flame dies under suspicious circumstances, leaving Henry as the prime suspect. Torn between protecting his family and clearing his name, Henry fights to protect the most he’s ever had to lose.
The Bramble and the Rose is the third book in the Henry Farrell series. Tom Bouman's Officer Farrell is first introduced in Dry Bones in the Valley, winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the outset of Edgar-winner Bouman's lean, somber third Henry Farrell novel (after 2017's Fateful Mornings), Farrell, the sole police officer for Wild Thyme Township, Pa., heads into the woods to check out the decapitated body of an unidentified man found at the bottom of a ravine. Evidence suggests that the man was partially eaten by a bear; the discovery of his head high in a tree points to murder. DNA testing identifies the victim as Chet Destry, a retired PI, but what was Destry doing in that remote part of the state? Meanwhile, Farrell's wedding to Miss Julie promises some happiness for the tortured lawman, but he soon has cause to worry. Farrell's 11-year-old nephew, Ryan, runs off, and an old flame of his, Shelly Bray, winds up dead before she can tell him something she knows about Destry's murder. Bad guys begin targeting Farrell, who impulsively goes on the run, and after a gun battle and other high-stakes confrontations finally gets some answers to a rather convoluted conspiracy. This rural noir starts out more convincingly than it ends.
