Deputy Marty Hopkins is not pleased to be awoken in the middle of the night by a phone call from her boss. As tornado season hits southern Indiana, Marty's small county sheriff's office finds itself with a perplexing puzzle to solve. The body of a young woman has been found in a bank lobby but, suspicious or not, the cause of death is unclear. In the meantime, Marty's recent application for divorce is not being well received by her husband or her young daughter, and her friend's fifteen-year-old daughter has run away to join a rock band. All of this, combined with the imminent threat of tornadoes, conspires to make a very difficult couple of weeks for Marty...
P. M. Carlson is the author of eight Maggie Ryan mysteries and several crime short stories, as well as Gravestone and Bloodstream, the first two books in this series of Marty Hopkins mysteries. She has been nominated for a number of awards, including an Anthony for Murder is Academic and an Edgar for Murder in the Dog Days. She lives in New York State with her husband and a Belgian sheepdog named Poirot.
Title: Deathwind (Severn House Large Print)
Author: Carlson, P.M.
ISBN: 9780727875785
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Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2007-03-07
Number of Pages: 384
Weight: 0.6352 kg
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