Something Broken

by Roger Emile Stouff

A phone call from Amos Notterly's hometown sends the old detective and Sheriff Gordon Bredenbury to Deacon Holler and the family Amos has not seen in years...along with the woman he loved and lost thirty-six years ago. Her son has disappeared, and the local authorities seem uninterested in finding him. Amos and Gordon take on the case, but along the way Gordon becomes a suspect in a murder, and he and Amos are ensnared by an old vendetta dating back to the warehouse shooting that nearly crippled Amos in 1964.
Back in Long Valley, a train derailment south of town unleashes chaos that Chief Deputy Gerard Rand, Deputy Parker Rain Bird and Carolina Proud Horse struggle to control. Forest Service Captain Tara Landrum arrives in Long Valley to apply for the vacant sheriff's office position Gordon offered her...and perhaps get closer to the sheriff himself.

280 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 29, 2016

About the author

Roger Emile Stouff is the son of Nicholas Leonard Stouff Jr., last chief of the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana, and Lydia Marie Gaudet Stouff, daughter of a Cajun farmer. He has been a journalist for more than thirty years and writer of the award-winning column "From the Other Side" in the St. Mary and Franklin Banner-Tribune. He was featured on the television show "Fly Fishing America" in 2006, and was writer and narrator of the documentary "Native Waters: A Chitimacha Recollection" on Louisiana Public Broadcasting in 2010. Based on his two memoirs, "Native Waters" and "The Great Sadness," the show is now showing on public broadcasting stations nationwide, was nominated for an Emmy and was recipient of a Bronze Telly Award.

He writes extensively about his Native American ancestry in autobiography, fiction and short stories, including the connection the Chitimacha, "people of the many waters" hold to the ancestral waters of the Atchafalaya Basin.

With co-author Kenneth Brown he has also authored science-fiction and epic fantasy novels, including the first two books of the series "The Allidian Saga."