Vengeance Is Mine:
A Red River Mystery
Reavis Z. Wortham
Poisoned Pen, Jul 1 2014, $24.95
ISBN 9781464202605
In 1965 hit man Tony Agrioli met newlyweds
Center Springs Constable Cody and Norma Faye Parker while they were on their
honeymoon in Vegas. He liked what they
said about their small Texas town and thought if he survived his job he would retire
there.
Two years later, defying the Family by
failing to kill two Cuban tweeners, Tony wants out of the murder business after
falling in love with Samantha Chesterfield.
She accepts his proposal of marriage and they agree to move to Center
Springs to raise a family there. However
instead of a peaceful town as the Parker couple once told him; nothing goes
right especially when the Family arrives, but apparently not for him. Soon Cody’s Uncle Ned, also a constable, leads
an investigation into a homicide, counterfeiting and bank robbery with the
sheriff interfering in the inquiry and his teenage grandson Top and the lad’s cousin
Pepper adding chaos to the pandemonium.
The fourth fantastic Parker clan historical police
procedural (see The Right
Side of Wrong, The Rock Hole and Burrows) is a great 1960s
period piece thriller in which segregation remains strictly enforced and border
issues are not on the radar screen. The
Parker crew is solid as they deal with hell arriving in Center Springs.
Harriet Klausner
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