Book Overview
"A suspenseful tale, told from the title to the end with wit and warmth by a very talented writer." --Nancy Pickard, award-winning author Summer in Benteen County, Kansas, is a season possessed of all the gentle subtlety of an act of war. Winter, of course, is no better, but remembrance of its frosts and blizzards and winds that begin to suck away your life before you walk a dozen steps has grown faint by the early hours of a Sunday morning in late June. While some try to sleep, and Sheriff English and his ex-wife try sex, the Reverend Peter Simms takes an early walk in the park and encounters someone counting coup. When the Sheriff's part-Cheyenne brother, Mad Dog, arrives to meditate, he finds the Reverend's mutilated corpse. Mad Dog is the obvious suspect and he begins to hang out in the town jail while Sheriff English widens his net. English picks up several suspicious characters, and an increasingly dark history for the Simms family. The case grows stormier, and so does the weather. As a tornado gathers to hurl its fury on the hapless town, the fury of the killer rises to meet it.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1890208493
ISBN13:9781890208493
Release Date:December 2000
Publisher:Poisoned Pen Press
Length:190 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
This is a terrific book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I don't know how I missed this series for as long as I did -- it's terrific. The characters are wonderful, Mad Dog off on his spirit quests and Englishman trying hard to keep life sane and safe in Buffalo Springs, Kansas. The car chase alone is worth the price of the book.
A good bginning to this series
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
For the most part, the citizens of Buffalo Springs, Kansas are law abiding. It has been seventeen years since the last homicide. The sheriff's brother, who is one-fourth Cheyenne, dresses up as an Indian. He goes to the local park seeking a vision, but instead stumbles over the mutilated corpse of Reverend Peter Samms.The deputy chases after an outsider, a black man who the law enforcement official believes killed the Reverend. During the pursuit, the deputy wrecks the car. Next, police officials find the Reverend's father dead with his head scalped in the same way as his son. These two murders are linked to the kidnapping of the sheriff's daughter by two dysfunctional adults. The sheriff needs to outwit the psychotic duo while outrunning a tornado.MAD DOG AND ENGLISHMAN does not contain Cocker or Russell, but remains a fascinating, unusual police procedural due to the cast. The ensemble seems to have just stepped out of the Twilight Zone or perhaps Eerie, Indiana. Thus, the plot and characters make for an uncanny tale that J.M. Hayes could turn into a series that serves as the exciting center of weirdness in the mystery universe.Harriet Klausner
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