The Old Buzzard Had it Coming

Praise for The Old Buzzard Had It Coming..."As vivid and unforgettable as a crimson Oklahoma sunset...a book to savor-lyrical, authentic, and heart-warming." -Carolyn Hart "Alafair Tucker deserves to stand beside Ma Joad in literature's gallery of heroic ladies." -Tony Hillerman Alafair Tucker is a strong woman, the core of family life on a farm in Oklahoma where the back-breaking work and daily logistics of caring for her husband Shaw, their nine children, and being neighborly requires hard muscle and a clear head. She's also a woman of strong opinions, and it is her opinion that her neighbor, Harley Day, is a drunkard and a reprobate. So, when Harley's body is discovered frozen in a snowdrift one January day in 1912, she isn't surprised that his long-suffering family isn't exactly grieving. Helping Harley's wife prepare the body for burial, Alafair discovers that Harley's demise was anything but natural-there is a bullet lodged behind his ear. She's concerned when she hears that Harley's son, John Lee, is the prime suspect in his father's murder, for her 17-year-old daughter Phoebe is in love with the boy.
Alafair is worried that Phoebe is in for a broken heart, but as she begins to unravel the events that led to Harley's death, she discovers that Phoebe might be more than just John Lee's sweetheart...Oklahoma native Casey and her husband live in Tempe, Arizona. The Old Buzzard Had It Coming is first in her series featuring Oklahoma pioneer wife and mother Alafair Tucker. http://www.doniscasey.com