Terry Shames. (2016). The Necessary Murder of Nonie Blake: A Samuel Craddock Mystery. Seventh Street Books.

Terry Shames. 2016. The Necessary Murder of Nonie Blake: A Samuel Craddock Mystery. Seventh Street Books.

Terry Shames, The Necessary Murder of Nonie Blake: A Samuel Craddock Mystery. Seventh Street Books, 2016.

Terry Shames. The Necessary Murder of Nonie Blake: A Samuel Craddock Mystery. Seventh Street Books, 2016.

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   • bioText: Terry Shames is the Macavity Award-winning author of the Samuel Craddock mysteries A Killing at Cotton Hill, The Last Death of Jack Harbin, Dead Broke in Jarrett Creek, and A Deadly Affair at Bobtail Ridge. She is also the coeditor of Fire in the Hills, a book of stories, poems, and photographs about the 1991 Oakland Hills Fire. She grew up in Texas and continues to be fascinated by the convoluted loyalties and betrayals of the small town where her grandfather was the mayor. Terry is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime.
     
     
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Nonie Blake is back home from a mental institution where she has spent the last twenty years, and people are worried. Maybe too worried, for within a week of her return, Nonie is murdered.
Police Chief Samuel Craddock thinks the only possible suspects are members of her tight-lipped family. Ever since Nonie tried to kill her sister when she was fourteen and was sent away to the institution, the family has kept to itself.
Clues are scarce and Craddock is stumped. So he checks with therapists at the mental hospital to see whether they can add anything useful to his investigation. But he discovers that she has not been there for ten years. Now Craddock has to find out where Nonie has been all this time.
Soon Craddock finds himself dealing not only with murder, but layers of deception and secrets, and in the midst of it all—a new deputy, one Maria Trevino, sent by the sheriff to beef up security in the small town of Jarrett Creek.

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   • source: Library Journal STARRED REVIEW
   • content: "The lead's folksy tone belies astute detecting, and the plotting will dazzle readers."
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   • source: Booklist
   • content: "A gritty take on small-town crime."
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   • content: "An amazing read. The poetic, literary quality of the writing draws you into a small town and its interesting, secret-carrying residents."
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   • source: Bill Crider, author of Compound Murder, A Dan Rhodes Mystery (on A Killing at Cotton Hill)
   • content: "Terry Shames does small-town Texas crime right, and A Killing at Cotton Hill is the real thing. It has humor, insight, and fine characters. Former chief of police Samuel Craddock is a man readers are going to love, and they'll want to visit him and Jarrett Creek, Texas, often."
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     November 9, 2015
     In Shames’s engrossing fifth Samuel Craddock mystery (after 2015’s A Deadly Affair at Bobtail Ridge), the return of Winona “Nonie” Blake, who was sent to an institution near Dallas 20 years earlier, at age 14, after she tried to hang her younger sister, has the town of Jarrett Creek, Tex., talking—especially when Nonie is soon after found dead. When Craddock, Jarrett Creek’s police chief, investigates, Nonie’s uncooperative relatives attempt to keep some mysterious family secret hidden. Maria Trevino, a brash young deputy sent from Houston, provides Craddock with valuable assistance and teaches the affable old lawman a thing or two about modern police work. The discovery that Nonie was released from the institution 10 years earlier, not recently as Craddock was assuming, raises the stakes. The authentic small-town ambiance, a cast of meticulously developed characters, and Craddock’s easygoing, first-person narrative should more than satisfy series fans. Agent: Janet Reid, FinePrint Literary Management.

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     November 1, 2015
     A small-town Texas sheriff faces a most peculiar murder case. Retired police officer Samuel Craddock serves as Jarrett Creek's sheriff because the town's broke and can't afford to pay anyone else. Lately Jarrett Creek's been buzzing with the news that Nonie Blake, who's done 20 years in a mental institution since trying to hang her younger sister, is coming home. A few days after she arrives, Craddock gets a call from Charlotte Blake telling him that Nonie has drowned in a pond on the family ranch. The fact that Nonie's head has been bashed in by an unknown object tells Craddock that he's got a murder on his hands. The Blake family may have lived in the area for years, but they keep to themselves and apparently have enough money to prevent any of them from having to work. Nonie's mother, Adelaide, has her hands full caring for her husband, John, who has Parkinson's disease; their youngest son, Skeeter, who found the body, helps out with his father's care. The couple's other son, rodeo rider Billy, who saved Charlotte from being hanged, quickly returns home to support his family. Certain that the motive lies in the past, Craddock quickly learns that Nonie was a manipulative liar, a snoop, and maybe a blackmailer. The steady stream of misinformation he's fed tells Craddock that Nonie's not the only liar in the family. The most outrageous falsehood conceals the fact that Nonie was actually released from the institution 10 years ago. Craddock must dig deep into the past of the entire family before he discovers the shocking truth. Shames does it again, providing the wise, likable Craddock (A Deadly Affair at Bobtail Ridge, 2015, etc.) with yet another quirky mystery with a surprising ending.

     COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     January 1, 2016
     

     Jarrett Creek, TX, police chief Samuel Craddock is called to the Blake family ranch to investigate a murder. The victim had spent the past 20 years in a Dallas psychiatric hospital for attempting to kill her little sister. Once again Shames's mystery (after A Deadly Affair at Bobtail Ridge) engages the reader with well-developed characters and an ingenious plot.

     Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     December 15, 2015
     Samuel Craddock, police chief of a tidy little town in East Texas, would claim that he has no special detective skills, no dazzling powers of deduction. He just goes about this windblown land asking questions until the matter is cleared up. Here he must solve the murder of Winona Blake, a troubled woman just back from a mental institution. He interviews the family and suspects there's something they're not telling him, but has no idea what. A deputy fresh from the academy mocks his small-town sense that you can solve cases by doing nothing but talking to people. So Craddock confronts the twenty-first century, mastering computer searches and marveling that FedEx can get him documents overnight. It's this mix of technology and persistent questioning that solves the mystery, and it's the writer's skill that keeps us reading. There's a nervous tension under the surface of the everyday prose, born of Craddock's (undeserved) sense that he might not be quite up to this job. Small-town policing, strong on character, much like Steven F. Havill's Posadas County series.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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Nonie Blake is back home from a mental institution where she has spent the last twenty years, and people in Jarrett Creek are worried. Maybe too worried, for within a week of her return, Nonie is murdered.
Chief Samuel Craddock thinks the only possible suspects are members of her tight-lipped family. Ever since Nonie tried to kill her sister when she was fourteen and was sent away to the institution, the family has kept to itself.
Clues are scarce and Craddock is stumped. So he checks with therapists at the mental hospital to see whether they can add anything useful to his investigation. But he discovers that she has not been there for ten years. Now Craddock has to find out where Nonie has been all this time.
Soon Craddock finds himself dealing not only with murder, but layers of deception and secrets, and in the midst of it all--a new deputy, one Maria Trevino, sent by...

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