Bohannon's Country: Mystery Stories - Hardcover

Hansen, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670849421 ISBN 13: 9780670849420

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1993

Synopsis

Ex-sheriff Hack Bohannon and his crew--including grizzled rodeo rider George Stubbs and student priest Manuel Rivera--discover that death can be as unpredictable as the California landscape. 17,500 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.

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.
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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.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0670849421
• ISBN 13: 9780670849420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192