DARK PLACES
by Reavis Wortham
At the tail end of 1967, the Parker family once again
finds it impossible to hide from a world spinning out of control.
Fourteen-year-old Top still can't fit in with their Center Springs, Texas,
community or forget recent, vicious crimes. His near-twin cousin Pepper,
desperate to escape her own demons, rashly joins the Flower Children flocking
to California―just as two businessmen are kidnapped and murdered in the Red
River bottoms on the same night a deadly hit and run kills a farmer. Constable
Ned Parker wonders if these crimes are connected, but he goes after Pepper,
leaving the investigation in the hands of Sheriff Cody Parker. Parker hires
Deputy Anna Sloan, an investigator with an eye toward detail as everyone is
eyeing her. Yet it is instinct that propels her after killers through a world
nearly forgotten, the hunt’s backdrop one of continuous rain, gloomy skies, and
floods. When she’s ambushed, the investigation accelerates into gunfire,
chases, and hair-raising suspense. What of Pepper? Out on Route 66, the Mother
Road to California, a man named Crow isn't what he seems. Lies, deceptions, and
a band of outlaw motorcyclists proves to the Parkers that no matter where you
turn, no matter what you do, the world is full of such darkness that even
grandmothers are capable of unspeakable deeds.
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As a
boy, award-winning writer Reavis Z. Wortham hunted and fished the river bottoms
near Chicota, Texas, the inspiration for his fictional Center Springs. Reavis
Z. Wortham’s critically acclaimed debut
novel, The Rock Hole, was listed in a
Starred Review by Kirkus Reviews as
one of their “Top Mysteries of 2011.” Burrows,
the second novel in this critically acclaimed series received a Starred
Review from Publishers Weekly, and The Library Journal listed it as One of
Nine Historical Mysteries for the Summer of 2012. Vengeance is Mine, Book 4, was listed by True West magazine as one of their Top 5 Modern Westerns of 2015. A
retired educator of 35 years, Reavis and wife Shana live in Frisco, Texas.
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