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Informationen zum Autor Reavis Z. Wortham is the critically acclaimed author of the Red River Mysteries set in rural Northeast Texas in the 1960s. As a boy, he hunted and fished the river bottoms near Chicota, the inspiration for the fictional location. He is also the author of a thriller series featuring Texas Ranger Sonny Hawke. He teaches writing at a wide variety of venues including local libraries and writers' conferences. Wortham has been a newspaper columnist and magazine writer since 1988, and has been the Humor Editor for Texas Fish and Game Magazine for the past twenty-two years. He and his wife, Shana, live in Northeast Texas. Check out his website at www.reaviszwortham.com Klappentext "A fine historical crime novel....Highly recommended."-Joe R. Lansdale! award-winning author of Edge of Dark WaterPraise for The Red River Mysteries..."Combines the gonzo sensibility of Joe R. Lansdale and the elegiac mood of To Kill a Mockingbird to strike just the right balance between childhood innocence and adult horror." -Publishers Weekly starred review of BurrowsAs 1965 draws to a close! Constable Cody Parker of Center Springs! Texas! has a frightening sense of gathering storm clouds. His dreams prove accurate when he is ambushed and nearly killed on a lonely country road during an unusually heavy snowfall. As Cody recovers! Constable Ned Parker struggles to connect a seemingly unrelated series of murders. When Cody follows his main suspect across the Rio Grande into Mexico! Ned understands that to save his nephew! he will have to cross more than a river: he will have to cross over to the right side of wrong. As a boy! Reavis Z. Wortham hunted and fished the river bottoms near Chicota! Texas! the inspiration for his fictional Center Springs. A retired educator of 35 years! he and wife Shana live in Texas.www.reaviszwortham.com
