Shepherd of the Wolves

Sheriff Lewis Cody #1

by Slusher

As Sheriff, Lewis was doing his best to investigate the sudden deaths of Ivy Joe Culpepper, the town's kindly old black school custodian and Cassie Shelor, a teenaged vixon. From a brawl in a backwoods roadhouse to a grisly act of arson to a devastating shoot-out on a mountain highway, Lewis is moving closer to the horrifying nexus of the two cases.

320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 1, 1995

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

As far as I can tell he's only written two books and I wish there were more because I absolutely loved this one.

[Maddy · Rating 4 out of 5]

PROTAGONIST: Lewis Cody, sheriff
SETTING: Hunter County, Virginia
SERIES: #1 of 2
RATING: 4.25
WHY: Beloved elderly custodian Ivy Joe Culpepper was killed when his car went off the road. Lewis Cody, sheriff of the small county of Hunter in Virginia, arrives to hear Ivy's last words, indicating it was no accident. His estranged granddaughter, Lucia Dodd, an attorney in Washington, DC, arrives to confront what she perceives as racism in handling his death. Some wonderful characters, including the unorthodox Lewis, are involved in a multi-layered plot that never fails to interest. My quibbles are that there are quite a few sexual scenes with too much description for my taste, and the resolution didn't quite work for me.

[Travis Horn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Probably my favorite Bill Slusher book, and I think it was his first. Forgive me for being a bit cliché, in typical book-jacket fashion, but this was a page-turner that I just couldn't put down!