Detective Wayon
Gallard has only been a detective for a month so the deceased woman hanging
like a scarecrow at the Three Sisters Organic Farm might be a bigger case than
he is ready to handle. Though he has been with the department for eleven years,
Gallard has been a detective barely a month. Not even long enough to be
comfortable wearing a suit on the job. If the case wasn’t complicated enough,
somebody opened fire on the crime scene as Deputy Pudge, Gallard, and the two surviving
sisters as they contemplated Gladys and the strange note that was pinned to
her.
Considering
everything that has happened, Sheriff Clayton thinks Detective Gallard is going
to need some help and wants Al Quinn to assist and unofficially mentor Gallard.
Al Quinn is sixty-two and far too young to be retired in Sheriff Clayton’s
opinion. While he tells Quinn that all he wants is for him to show Gallard how
to up his detective game, Quinn figures Clayton has something more in mind. The
good sheriff frequently has an agenda within an agenda, but what that would be in
this case, Quinn has not idea. Things at home are not at all relaxing and since
he owes Clayton as they go back many years, he agrees to help for a few days.
Neither Quinn nor
Gallard are thrilled to be forced together, but they form an uneasy alliance to
work the case agreement. Good thing too as the dead woman isn’t the only murder
case they have on their hands in the South Texas Countryside.
Second in the series
that began with To
Hell And Gone In Texas is
another good read. While billed as an Al Quinn Novel, the read is also
about the other people in his life whether it be his brother Maury, his brother’s
nurse, Bonnie, or other folks. Those relationships with Quinn, as well as the
relationships between each other, are just as much as a part of the read as is
the highly entertaining mystery. As was done in the first book, author
Russ Hall has set up another complex mystery in the Texas Hill County and
challenged readers to figure it out first.
While you could read A
Turtle Roars In Texas first, it is recommended that you start at the
beginning with To Hell And Gone In Texas. There is some character evolution at
work here and less familial backstory in the read, so it is best to read in
order. Both books are highly entertaining and mighty good reads.
A Turtle Roars In Texas: An Al Quinn
Novel (Book 2)
Russ Hall
Red Adept Publishing
December 2015
ASIN: B018MXJH5K
eBook (paperback available)
262 Pages
$5.99
According to Amazon, I picked this up
back in October 2016. I am fairly certain I used funds in my Amazon Associate
account to do so. I don’t think it was a free or reduced price read.
The third book in the
series is titled Throw The Texas Dog A Bone and was published last August. I
have a copy on my eBook TBR pile.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2017
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