Bohannon's Country: Mystery Stories (Crime, Penguin) - Softcover

Hansen, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140233555 ISBN 13: 9780140233551

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1994

Synopsis

From the author of the acclaimed Dave Brandstetter series and winner of the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award comes a superb new collection of mysteries. Fascinating crime fighter Hack Bohannon roams along the central California coast in five tight contemporary stories--some classic Bohannon and some with memorable new characters.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

In five new short stories, Hansen is in top form, delighting readers with surprising, often risk-taking, fiction. This will be no surprise to followers of the acclaimed Dave Brandstetter series (Brandstetter was one of the first gay PI heroes), which ended last year with A Country of Old Men . Three of the stories feature Hack Bohannon, a rugged horse rancher on the California coast who sleuths on the side. In "The Olcott Nostrum" Hack and colorful cohorts help an old woman unearth the mystery of her inherited farmhouse and find the formula for the title's legendary cure-all. Throughout, Bohannon's wife Linda drifts in and out of a catatonic state brought on by a kidnapping and rape, although her plight is apparently forgotten in the second story, "The Owl in the Oak." The pick of the fivesome is "Molly's Aim." Molly, a motel chambermaid in her small hometown, waits for years for the return of Carl, the high school hero she loved, who cheated her of her share of the loot from a murder/robbery. Also arriving in town is Hugh; he loved Carl too and was also betrayed. The stars collide in this taut masterpiece of short crime fiction.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Hansen, best known for his Dave Brandstetter mysteries, provides five stories, the majority centered around ex-sheriff/horsekeeper Hack Bohannon ( Bohannon's Book , Penguin, 1989) and his friends from the sheriff's office.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140233555
• ISBN 13: 9780140233551
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192