*Please note gentle reader that Hennessey's second adventure, DYING GRASS MOON, reveals the villain from this book, which is her first foray into sleuthing.
ONE FOR ANOTHER EXERPT Chapter One
Memories are tricksters. It impressed me if folks were able to recite their first memory from when a very young child. The rabbit out of the hat. I liked to hope, for their sake, that for the greater part they were good memories - perhaps the gift of a wooden toy carved by an indulgent father, or the warm press to the breast of an endearment-murmuring mother. Certainly, nothing more distressing than punishment meted out for gleefully dropping the prized possession of a sibling into the roiling privy, or leaving the gate to the hog pen unlatched.