In this award-winning debut mystery novel, the chief of police of a small town is also an unreliable drunk. So when Dora Lee Parjeter is murdered, her old friend and former police chief Samuel Craddock steps in to investigate. He discovers that a lot of people may have had it in for Dora Lee - the conniving rascals on the farm next door, her estranged daughter, and her live-in grandson. And then there's that stranger Dora Lee claimed was spying on her. As Craddock digs to find the identity of the killer, the human foibles of Jarrett Creek's residents - their pettiness and generosity, their secret vices and true virtues - are also revealed.
- ISBN10 1616147997
- ISBN13 9781616147990
- Publish Date 16 July 2013
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 18 May 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Seventh Street Books
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 235
- Language English