The night of August 15, 1951 finds Jack
Laramie on the road just, outside of Clyde, Texas. The private detective stops
for gas and food. The waitress, Vicky Mae, does not appreciate the small joke
Jack makes as she serves him a cup of coffee.
His joke was also very much not appreciated by the man who clearly has
an ongoing interest in Vicky Mae. Things escalate as Luke decides to go
physical with Jack and it isn’t long before the cook has to come out of the
back wielding a shotgun to restore order.
Despite what happens, Jack sticks
around town. Eventually Laramie, grandson of Cash Laramie, goes to work for a
local rancher by the name of Othmer. At first he is just helping the elderly
rancher take care of the livestock and property, but things change when Othmer
tells him of recent events involving his daughter, Nancy. What Othmer thinks is
going on isn’t. As usual, Jack feels a duty to set things as right as he can.
Some people are just bad and there are plenty of those types in Torn
And Frayed: The Drifter Detective Series Number 7.
This seventh book in the series also
includes a bonus short story featuring Cash Laramie, U.S. Marshal in “Missing.”
Also seen in the book, Further
Adventures of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles, the short story tells
of a time when Cash, known as the “Outlaw Marshal” went missing in 1888 and
Gideon Miles had to go looking for him.
Once again, David Cranmer brings
readers back into Jack Laramie. A man looking for his place after World War II
in a world that is changing. There is a lot of his grandfather in him and one
gets the sense that he is a man born to the wrong time. Plenty of mystery and
action make this latest installment in the Drifter Detective series another
mighty good read.
Torn And Frayed: The Drifter Detective Series Number 7
David
Cranmer
Beat
To A Pulp
ASIN: B01E9DSDQQ
eBook (paperback available)
79 Pages
$1.49
Material was purchased back in April
to read and review by way of funds in my Amazon Associate account.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2016
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2 comments:
This is a new-to-me series. It's going on mt TBR list!
It is a good one!
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