"A sleeper that deserves wider attention." --The New York Times As 1965 draws to a close, Constable Cody Parker of Center Springs, Texas, has a frightening sense of gathering storm clouds. com. reaviszwortham.
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He and his wife, Shana, live in Northeast Texas.
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 teaches writing at a wide variety of venues including local libraries and writers\' conferences.
He is also the author of a thriller series featuring Texas Ranger Sonny Hawke.
As a boy, he hunted and fished the river bottoms near Chicota, the inspiration for the fictional location.
Wortham is the critically acclaimed author of the Red River Mysteries set in rural Northeast Texas in the 1960s.
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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.
Of course, Ned\'s preteen grandchildren, Top and Pepper, are underfoot at every turn.
Rains; the jittery little farmer Isaac Reader; the Wilson boys, Ty Cobb and Jimmy Foxx; and a mysterious old man named Tom Bell.
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Investigating, Ned, Cody, and deputy John Washington cross paths with many colorful characters: cranky old Judge O.
As his nephew, Cody, recovers, Constable Ned Parker struggles to connect a seemingly unrelated series of murders, and the people of northeast Texas wonder why their once peaceful community has suddenly become a dangerous place to live.
The attack leads locals to worry that a terrifying killer known as "The Skinner" has returned.
His dreams prove accurate when he is ambushed and nearly killed on a lonely country road during an unusually heavy snowfall. "A sleeper that deserves wider attention." --The New York Times As 1965 draws to a close, Constable Cody Parker of Center Springs, Texas, has a frightening sense of gathering storm clouds
