本の詳細
形式
ペーパーバック
ページ数
272
言語
英語
公開されました
Nov 10, 2011
出版社
Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN-10
1590583175
ISBN-13
9781590583173
説明
From Booklist
Mad Dog, Englishman, and the other eccentric inhabitants of Buffalo Springs, Kansas, have their hands full in their second adventure. A raging blizzard makes driving dangerous and communication haphazard. As if this weren't enough, Sheriff English must find out why an Alzheimer's patient at the local nursing home is cuddling a dead baby instead of her doll. English's half-brother, Mad Dog, has taken the body of another resident for a traditional Cheyenne burial, but family members give chase and start shooting. Meanwhile, the sheriff's teenage daughters take off with his deputy, who is teaching them to drive, and an old lady named Dorothy who wears red shoes may convince readers that Oz really is in Kansas. With zany, lovable characters and a plot that hurtles along with the momentum of a wacky action movie, this comic mystery will appeal to fans of Joan Hess' Maggody series. Barbara Bibel
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Review
"Switched identities, an infant who appears mysteriously, a madwoman locked away from the outside world--these and other gothic elements in Hayes&'s wry, briskly paced second novel (after 2000's Mad Dog and Englishman) would make Mrs. Radcliffe feel right at home. Sheriff English of Buffalo Springs, Kans., shows up at the Sunshine Towers Retirement Home, to try to identify the mother of a tiny corpse that one of the elderly residents has found. The sheriff's part Cheyenne half-brother, Mad Dog, has just liberated the body of Tommie Irons from the Towers and conveyed it for ritual release to the Happy Hunting Grounds, and then a blizzard shuts down the town, except for the Texaco station and the courthouse. Things could not be much worse--but they soon are, as a woman who calls herself Dorothy and wears bright red tennis shoes seems to be leading the sheriff and Mad Dog down the garden path. Juggling the several story lines with aplomb, Hayes shows that even quirky characters can have a sober, thoughtful side when dealing with dilemmas of confidentiality and choice. This macabre, witty look at life and death on the Great Plains should win Hayes new fans."-Publishers Weekly
Mad Dog, Englishman, and the other eccentric inhabitants of Buffalo Springs, Kansas, have their hands full in their second adventure. A raging blizzard makes driving dangerous and communication haphazard. As if this weren't enough, Sheriff English must find out why an Alzheimer's patient at the local nursing home is cuddling a dead baby instead of her doll. English's half-brother, Mad Dog, has taken the body of another resident for a traditional Cheyenne burial, but family members give chase and start shooting. Meanwhile, the sheriff's teenage daughters take off with his deputy, who is teaching them to drive, and an old lady named Dorothy who wears red shoes may convince readers that Oz really is in Kansas. With zany, lovable characters and a plot that hurtles along with the momentum of a wacky action movie, this comic mystery will appeal to fans of Joan Hess' Maggody series. Barbara Bibel
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Review
"Switched identities, an infant who appears mysteriously, a madwoman locked away from the outside world--these and other gothic elements in Hayes&'s wry, briskly paced second novel (after 2000's Mad Dog and Englishman) would make Mrs. Radcliffe feel right at home. Sheriff English of Buffalo Springs, Kans., shows up at the Sunshine Towers Retirement Home, to try to identify the mother of a tiny corpse that one of the elderly residents has found. The sheriff's part Cheyenne half-brother, Mad Dog, has just liberated the body of Tommie Irons from the Towers and conveyed it for ritual release to the Happy Hunting Grounds, and then a blizzard shuts down the town, except for the Texaco station and the courthouse. Things could not be much worse--but they soon are, as a woman who calls herself Dorothy and wears bright red tennis shoes seems to be leading the sheriff and Mad Dog down the garden path. Juggling the several story lines with aplomb, Hayes shows that even quirky characters can have a sober, thoughtful side when dealing with dilemmas of confidentiality and choice. This macabre, witty look at life and death on the Great Plains should win Hayes new fans."-Publishers Weekly