Donis Casey, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (216p) ISBN 978-1-59058-149-0
Life on the Oklahoma frontier in 1912 was anything but easy, yet Casey's sweet-tempered debut manages to make readers nostalgic for simpler times. Running a successful farm is hard work, and on the Tucker farm everyone in the family has a job to
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Donis Casey, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (232p) ISBN 978-1-59058-309-8
Set in the prairie town of Boynton, Okla., in the spring of 1913, Casey's nostalgic, folksy second novel to feature Alafair Tucker (after 2005's The Old Buzzard Had It Coming
) finds the full-time mother of 11 and part-time sleuth worried...
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Donis Casey, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (217p) ISBN 978-1-59058-446-0
Casey’s mellow third Alafair Tucker whodunit (after 2006’s Hornswoggled
) is as laid-back as its 1914 Oklahoma setting. Alafair, farmer’s wife and busy mother to a flock of youngsters, searches grimly for a killer after mysterious...
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Donis Casey, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (244p) ISBN 978-1-59058-571-9
Set in Enid, Okla., in 1915, Casey's smart fourth whodunit to feature farmer's wife Alafair Tucker (after 2007's The Drop Edge of Yonder
) sensitively evokes smalltown life. The impending demise of Alafair's ill brother-in-law,...
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Donis Casey, Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (260p) ISBN 978-1-59058-831-4; $14.95 trade paper ISBN 978-1-59058-833-8
Casey's nuanced portrayal of settler and native lives in early 20th-century Oklahoma lends soul and depth to her atmospheric fifth Alafair Tucker mystery (after 2009's The Sky Took Him). One frosty November evening, Shaw Tucker and his hunting dog...
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Donis Casey. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (328p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0044-1
Set in 1916, Casey’s evocative sixth Alafair Tucker mystery (after 2011’s Crying Blood) finds Alafair and husband Shaw traveling from their Oklahoma home to Tempe, Ariz., where they plan to stay with Alafair’s sister, Elizabeth. Intensive flooding...
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Donis Casey. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (244p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0300-8
A huge tornado brings unexpected trouble to the people of Boynton, Okla., in Casey’s excellent seventh Alafair Tucker mystery (after 2012’s The Wrong Hill to Die On). One day in the summer of 1916, a twister blows Jubal Beldon’s body into a field,...
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Donis Casey. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (310p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0470-8
America’s entry into WWI provides the backdrop for Casey’s absorbing eighth Alafair Tucker mystery (after 2014’s Hell with the Lid Blown Off). Passions run high in the small town of Boynton, Okla., the home of Alafair, her husband, and their 10...
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Donis Casey. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (310p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0756-3
Casey’s thoughtful ninth Alafair Tucker mystery (after 2015’s All Men Fear Me) ably evokes rural Oklahoma in 1918. In remote Boynton, farm wife Alafair prays for an end to the hostilities in Europe as her youngest child starts school. Meanwhile, the
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Donis Casey. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (216p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0939-0
In Casey’s excellent 10th Alafair Tucker mystery (after 2017’s The Return of the Raven Mocker), 22-year-old George W. “Gee Dub” Tucker, a WWI vet scarred by his war experiences, returns to the family farm in Boynton, Okla., run by his parents,...
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Donis Casey. Poisoned Pen, $26.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4926-9918-7
Set mostly in Hollywood in 1926, this predictable series launch from Casey (the Alafair Tucker mysteries) introduces actor Bianca LaBelle, whose motion pictures about Bianca Dangereuse, “a Nelly Bly–type journalist and adventurer” are “the biggest...
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Donis Casey. Poisoned Pen, $15.99 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1350-2
Casey’s enjoyable sequel to 2019’s The Wrong Girl finds 21-year-old silent movie star Bianca LaBelle, who shot to fame in “a series of wildly popular adventure pictures about the indomitable world traveler, journalist, and sometime spy, Bianca...
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