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Blue-eyed Indian #1
Bones of the Rain
Murder at the Kerrville Folk Festival is no way to celebrate life with music, and with a bigot of a deputy sheriff in charge it's no place for a private investigator who the Austin newspaper calls the Blue-Eyed Indian.
Travis' obvious Native American heritage usually doesn't affect his private investigating for Austin's music stars until he heads out into Texas Hill Country where a back woods militia is ready to give him a taste of Texas he's not had until now. Still, when smoking hot Deputy Cassie comes to Austin to help, romance heats up and there's a chance at last for the detective who never gets the girl.
The trail of several murder attempts leads Travis to the dark underside of Austin, to a deal gone sour, a loose pile of cash that went with it, a mob-connected record label owner, the toughest little gun-packing gal he's ever met, a congressman who wants help for an incriminated daughter, and to a homicide detective who would like nothing better than to make life difficult for Travis. Worse, his nosing around puts Travis in the crosshairs of the kind of paramilitary enthusiasm that means stringing up "Injun" P.I.s like piñatas.
"Just remember," a friend tells Travis, "there are people out there who can give the cold wet willies to even your worst nightmares."
Before it is over, Travis is going to crave solitude like he never has before . . . if he survives.
Travis' obvious Native American heritage usually doesn't affect his private investigating for Austin's music stars until he heads out into Texas Hill Country where a back woods militia is ready to give him a taste of Texas he's not had until now. Still, when smoking hot Deputy Cassie comes to Austin to help, romance heats up and there's a chance at last for the detective who never gets the girl.
The trail of several murder attempts leads Travis to the dark underside of Austin, to a deal gone sour, a loose pile of cash that went with it, a mob-connected record label owner, the toughest little gun-packing gal he's ever met, a congressman who wants help for an incriminated daughter, and to a homicide detective who would like nothing better than to make life difficult for Travis. Worse, his nosing around puts Travis in the crosshairs of the kind of paramilitary enthusiasm that means stringing up "Injun" P.I.s like piñatas.
"Just remember," a friend tells Travis, "there are people out there who can give the cold wet willies to even your worst nightmares."
Before it is over, Travis is going to crave solitude like he never has before . . . if he survives.
278 pages, Hardcover
First published June 16, 2010
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About the author
Russ Hall
54 books37 followersRuss Hall is author of more than thirty-five books and coauthor of numerous other books. He has been an editor for major publishing companies, ranging from Harper & Row (now HarperCollins), Simon & Schuster, to Pearson. In 2011, he was awarded the Sage Award, by The Barbara Burnett Smith Mentoring Authors Foundation—a Texas award for the mentoring author who demonstrates an outstanding spirit of service in mentoring, sharing and leading others in the mystery writing community. He lives in Lago Vista, on the north shore of Lake Travis near Austin, where he hikes, fishes, and tends a herd of deer that visit daily to peep in the office window and help with the writing.
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January 24, 2021
Interesting and diverse cast of characters. Some plotting issues so I wasn't felt a little cheated in having the information I would have needed to solve the mystery.
January 30, 2011
Suspenseful from the get-go, “Bones of the Rain” is centered around a compelling plot with one heck of a villain and two main characters you will come to care deeply about. This blogger was guessing all the way to the end as Trav and Cassie closed in on the killer and a motive no one saw coming!
Hall’s style blends the roller-coaster ride pacing of Rick Riordan with the East Texas down-home humor of Joe Lansdale. And like Lansdale and Riordan, Russ draws on the colorful character of his locale – in this case Austin’s music scene – to pepper his narrative. Austinites will especially enjoy the scenes at some of Austin’s most beloved landmarks. Boy am I craving a Hutts hamburger right about now!
Go to my blog for the full review: http://loonachicklit.wordpress.com/
Hall’s style blends the roller-coaster ride pacing of Rick Riordan with the East Texas down-home humor of Joe Lansdale. And like Lansdale and Riordan, Russ draws on the colorful character of his locale – in this case Austin’s music scene – to pepper his narrative. Austinites will especially enjoy the scenes at some of Austin’s most beloved landmarks. Boy am I craving a Hutts hamburger right about now!
Go to my blog for the full review: http://loonachicklit.wordpress.com/
January 8, 2011
quick reading....good mystery but not very plausible. I like anything about Indians...the detective in this one is a blue eyed Indian.
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