Terry Shames. (2015). A Deadly Affair at Bobtail Ridge: A Samuel Craddock Mystery. Seventh Street Books.

Terry Shames. 2015. A Deadly Affair At Bobtail Ridge: A Samuel Craddock Mystery. Seventh Street Books.

Terry Shames, A Deadly Affair At Bobtail Ridge: A Samuel Craddock Mystery. Seventh Street Books, 2015.

Terry Shames. A Deadly Affair At Bobtail Ridge: A Samuel Craddock Mystery. Seventh Street Books, 2015.

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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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Someone is trying to kill Jenny Sandstone and she might know who it is. But how can Samuel Craddock protect her when she seems hell-bent on protecting the attempted killer's identity?
Craddock has learned to accept that his neighbor and friend Jenny's personal life is strictly secret. But when her dying mother tells him that Jenny is in danger, Craddock is confronted with a dilemma. He wants to respect Jenny's privacy, but he is haunted by the urgency in the dying woman's voice.
Then when Jenny is the victim of a suspicious car accident, Craddock has no choice but to get involved. He demands that she tell him what he needs to know to protect her and to solve the mysteries surrounding the strange events that began taking place as soon as Jenny's mother passed away.
Forced to confront the past, Jenny plunges into a downward spiral of rage and despair. She is drinking heavily and seems bent on self-destruction. Craddock must tread lightly as he tries to find out who is behind the threats to her. But only by getting to the bottom of the secrets buried in Jenny's past can he hope to save her both from herself and from whoever is out to harm her.

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   • content: "Shames has come up with a sleuth for the long haul."
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     February 9, 2015
     In Shames’s winning fourth Samuel Craddock mystery (after 2014’s Dead Broke in Jarrett Creek), the laconic Texas lawman takes up a case based on the incoherent mutterings of a dying woman, Vera Sandstone. It’s not really a case as such, since Vera cautioned that her daughter, Samuel’s longtime neighbor and county prosecutor Jenny Sandstone, might be in some kind of mortal danger. At first, he doesn’t take Vera’s warning very seriously, and neither does Jenny, but when attacks are made on Jenny’s beloved horses and then on her, he’s inclined to keep a closer eye on things. However, the more he presses Jenny for details—especially about her mysteriously estranged brother, Eddie, whom he suspects might be a person of interest—the more she withdraws. Craddock moseys among the locals, following his keen instincts and sorting clues, until reaching a satisfying resolution. Agent: Gail Fortune, Talbot Fortune Agency.

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     February 1, 2015
     A semiretired lawman helps a friend and finds a murderer. Samuel Craddock lands the job as acting chief of police when his Texas town is too broke to hire anyone else. His friend county prosecutor Jenny Sandstone is a very private person whose privacy is shattered when her mother, following a stroke, asks Samuel to find someone named Howard and protect Jenny from unspecified danger. Jenny doesn't want to talk to Samuel about it, even after her mother dies. In spite of her silence, he discovers that Howard was the father who walked out on her family years before. Jenny also refuses to discuss her estranged brother, Edward, even when he shows up claiming their mother left her home to him and only its contents to Jenny. Meanwhile, someone's harassing Jenny by attacking her beloved horses, first letting them out of their pasture, then putting a rattlesnake into one of the stalls. When Samuel gets a friend to look after the horses, he's attacked. Digging into Jenny's old cases and her closely guarded past, Samuel finds a dangerous meth cooker and his son, who have a grudge against her. When Jenny's run off the road, Samuel steps up his investigation in an effort to discover who's trying to kill her. Although you may beat the detective to the solution in Samuel's fourth case (Dead Broke in Jarrett Creek, 2014, etc.), getting there is a heck of a ride.

     COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     March 1, 2015
     

     Though he's semiretired, Samuel Craddock is still the law in his small Texas town of Jarrett Creek. When good friend and neighbor Jenny Sandstone tells him that her mother is at death's door, Samuel visits Vera Sandstone at the hospital in nearby Bobtail. Although barely lucid, Vera is clear when she warns Samuel that Jenny may be in danger and gives him a cryptic message about locating a long-lost woman from the family's past. When Vera dies, Samuel, worried that the already private Jenny will retreat even further, discreetly starts looking into her family history. Things get dicey when Jenny's estranged brother, Eddie, shows up unexpectedly, claiming that Vera changed her will at the last minute to include him. Determined to both preserve his longstanding friendship with Jenny as well as uncover the hidden knowledge in her past, Samuel must balance his role as law enforcer and concerned friend. VERDICT Shames wonderfully evokes small-town Texas life and Samuel is a slow-talking but certainly not slow-witted hero squarely in the Walt Longmire vein. This emotional fourth installment (after Dead Broke in Jarrett Creek) from the Macavity Award winner will surely satisfy series fans.

     Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     March 1, 2015
     A tiny town in Texas wouldn't seem to have much in common with an English village early in the last century. Just as aging lawman Samuel Craddock, with his bum leg and his pickup truck, wouldn't remind you right off of Miss Marple. Still, both sleuths are deceptively low-key while alert to the little detail that doesn't fit. They're insiders, part of the milieu they're investigating. They interview witnesses over cake and coffee in polite parlors. And Jane Marple would recognize the situation here: an old sin that should have been confronted years ago was covered up. Now it's emerging and turning deadly. Craddock's aged friend Vera Sandstone, near death, asks him to protect her daughter. He has no idea what she's talking about, but menacing things start to happen and Craddock must limp about asking questions. Gentility, Marple and Craddock know, makes for pleasant surfaces but also allows things to fester in the dark. Shames' restrained prose is the perfect vehicle for a story about secrets that were kept secret for too long.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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Someone is trying to kill Jenny Sandstone and she might know who it is. But how can Samuel Craddock protect her when she seems hell-bent on protecting the attempted killer's identity? Craddock has learned to accept that his neighbor and friend Jenny's personal life is strictly secret. But when her dying mother tells him that Jenny is in danger, Craddock is confronted with a dilemma. He wants to respect Jenny's privacy, but he is haunted by the urgency in the dying woman's voice. Then when Jenny is the victim of a suspicious car accident, Craddock has no choice but to get involved. He demands that she tell him what he needs to know to protect her and to solve the mysteries surrounding the strange events that began taking place as soon as Jenny's mother passed away. Forced to confront the past, Jenny plunges into a downward spiral of rage and despair. She is drinking heavily and seems bent on self-destruction. Craddock must tread lightly as he tries to find out who is behind the...

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