The Hangman's Tree

Bean, Frederic

ISBN 10: 0553580205 / ISBN 13: 9780553580204

Published by Bantam, 2000

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Synopsis:

They call it "The Hangman's Tree."  Everyone in Marfa, Texas, knows about the old madrone tree out on the Lacy ranch. Town lore says the tree's strange crimson bark is colored by the blood of thirteen men--each of whom met his death by hanging from the tree's sturdiest branch. It's been years since the last lynching--until local troublemaker Danny Lacy is discovered one blistering morning hanging dead from the tree, a hangman's knot around his neck. And now it's up to Texas Rangers Claude Groves and Carla Jenkins to find some answers.  As Claude and Carla sift through dead-end clues and uncooperative witnesses, they learn that most folks in town suspect that Danny's murder was a simple case of a fight gone too far. But when the Rangers find a secret drug-making lab right in Danny's house, they know they're dealing with something much more complicated. And the answers they seek are closer than they realize. For somewhere in town, a silent witness is hiding what she knows--from a killer who will stop at nothing to silence her....

From the Back Cover: "[Fred Bean is] a Texan who knows Texas."
-- Linda Lay Shuler, author of She Who Remembers

"One of the best new-breed Western writers."
-- Rocky Mountain News


Also by Frederic Bean
Murder At The Spirit Cave
Eden

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Hangman's Tree
Publisher: Bantam
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: mass_market
Condition: Very Good