Hornswoggled: An Alafair Tucker Mystery - Softcover

Casey, Donis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1458729087 ISBN 13: 9781458729088

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, 2012

Synopsis

It's the spring of 1913, and love is in bloom for Alice Tucker. Alice's new beau, Walter Kelley, is handsome, popular, and wealthy. Everyone in Boynton, Oklahoma, likes him. Everyone but Alice's mother, Alafair. She sees that Walter has a weakness for the ladies - and they for him. Moreover, Walter's late wife Louise had been stabbed in the heart and her body disposed of in Cane Creek only a few months earlier. The murderer has never been caught. The sheriff has cleared Walter of the deed - he has an alibi - but Alafair is not so sure that he wasn't involved in some way. Something literally doesn't smell right. Could it be Louise's tormented spirit signaling clues from the other side, or is Alafair scenting a more direct link to the crime? Even if he had nothing to do with his wife's death, Alafair judges Walter to have been a bad husband. With the help of her feisty mother-in-law, Sally McBride, Alafair sets out to prove to the headstrong Alice that Walter is not the paragon she thinks he is. As she searches for the truth behind the death of Louise Kelley, Alafair uncovers such a tangle of lies, misdirection, and deceit that she begins to think that the whole town has been downright hornswoggled!

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Alafair is skeptical of her daughter’s new beau, Walter Kelly. Walter may appear charming and he is wealthy, but Alafair can’t stop thinking about his last wife whose body was found in Cane Creek only a few months earlier.

About the Author:

A third generation Oklahoman, Donis Casey and her siblings grew up among their aunts and uncles, cousins, grandparents and great grandparents on farms and in small towns. There they learned the love of family and independent spirit that characterizes the population of that pioneering state. Donis graduated from the University of Tulsa with a degree in English, and earned a Master's degree in Library Science from Oklahoma University. After teaching school for a short time, she enjoyed a career as an academic librarian, working for many years at the University of Oklahoma and at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. The Old Buzzard Had It Coming, her first book, was named the best unpublished mystery of 2004 by The Oklahoma Writers'Federation For the past twenty years, Donis and her husband have lived in Tempe, Arizona.

About this edition

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1458729087
• ISBN 13: 9781458729088
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400