Ghostland - Softcover

Jean Hager

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0373261179 ISBN 13: 9780373261178

Publisher: Worldwide Library, 1993

Synopsis

On the eve of the Cherokee Heritage Festival, Police Chief Mitch Bushyhead must shuffle through a list of shady suspects and solve the murder of a third-grade girl and the disappearance of two other girls. Reprint.

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From Kirkus Reviews:

Oklahoma's Mitch Bushyhead, chief of police in Buckskin (Night Walker, etc.), is determined to find the killer of little Tamarah Birch, a third-grader at the area's tribal boarding school, whose body was found--strangled but not molested--in woods edging the school grounds. A prime suspect is Dwayne Burns, just released from confinement after an indecent exposure conviction, but Mitch has reasons for concentrating on the school's staff--from pompous principal Porter Qualls to janitor Haines, a reader of porn mags. In between are 60-ish counselor Lyman Shoemaker, teacher Ellis Harlan, his obviously troubled teenaged daughter Kendall, and others. The disappearance of Kendall and Tamarah's classmate Ruthann Blackfox adds to the pressure on Mitch and his small force- -but, in the end, the crucial break comes in a clue from Tamarah's own hand. Slow pacing that picks up midway--in a solidly plotted story with tribal love trimmings and well-defined characters. Hager's most engrossing effort to date. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Worldwide Library
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0373261179
• ISBN 13: 9780373261178
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250