Death In a Hammock

Harry Brock #1

by Kinley Roby

Nonfiction author Kinley Roby makes an assured mystery debut with this powerful novel, in which a retired Florida park ranger gets drawn into a tangled Southern mystery of lies and murder.

Genres: Mystery

266 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Kinley Roby, author of Death's Other Kingdom and five other Harry Brock mysteries, lives in Virginia with his wife, author and editor Mary Linn Roby.

Reviews

[Grey853 · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an excellent start to the Harry Brock series. We learn in the first pages what happened to break up his first marriage and why he ends up living alone in lower part of Florida.

A woman with two children comes looking for her husband who lives nearby. Harry takes her to the man's house because it's near the swamp and is hard to find. Unfortunately, the man has been murdered.

While police try to find out what happened, Harry grows closer and closer to Katherine and her children.

Roby does a great job not only with the mystery, which is twisty and complex, but with the personal side of the story.

[Joe A · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am still in the process of reading this book, and so far, I really like. It is a about a man who was found dead in his cabin by his wife and retired park ranger. There are a few different suspects who all seem to have a good reason to have killed him. So far it is a great book, and I can't wait to see how it ends.