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Title details for Circles in the Snow by Patrick F. McManus - Available

Circles in the Snow

#6 in series

by Patrick F. McManus
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After a bizarre murder, an Idaho sheriff crosses a flock of bird-loving suspects in a mystery by a New York Times bestselling author.

Bo Tully, sheriff of Blight County, Idaho, has dealt with small-town crime throughout his long, storied career. Now, contemplating retirement after years on the job, he's faced with a life-changing case—not that the murder of Morgan Fester, a nasty local rancher shot with an arrow, was all that surprising given that he was a suspect in the recent random killings of bald eagles.

What's perplexing is the crime scene itself: someone's made a perfect circle in the snow, yet there's not a single footprint in sight. While the go-to suspect might be Fester's faithless bird-loving archer of a wife, Bo knows there are too many people who wanted to kill the most disagreeable man in the county. That includes a lovely ornithologist working the local house of ill repute, and Fester's randy ranch foreman. But when Fester's beautiful widow hightails it to Mexico, the road to solving this crime takes a detour Tully didn't see coming.

With a "style that brings to mind Mark Twain, Art Buchwald, and Garrison Keillor" (People), Patrick McManus is an author "everyone should read" (The New York Times Book Review).

"Tully juggles a handful of likely murder suspects with his usual wit and aplomb... [a] delightful series...the mysteries are well crafted and genuinely suspenseful, not merely an excuse for some lighthearted goings-on, but solid puzzlers in their own right. Warning to McManus: you'd better not let Bo retire anytime soon."—Booklist

  • Creators

  • Series

    Bo Tully

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    June 7, 2014

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      • ISBN: 9781629142838
      • File size: 1358 KB

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      • ISBN: 9781629142838
      • File size: 1358 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 14, 2014
      In humorist McManus’s sleepy sixth and final Bo Tully mystery (after 2013’s The Tamarack Murders), the sheriff of rural Blight County, Idaho, and his ex-sheriff father, Pap, find the body of rancher Morgan Fester, known for philandering and shooting eagles, in a snowbank, shot in the back with an arrow. The unpopular Fester was killed around the time his free-spirited, bird-loving wife headed to Mexico for the winter. The murder investigation pointedly lacks urgency, tension, or conflict, though the author’s storytelling skills remain strong. McManus focuses mainly on the disillusionment of his hero, who can no longer go along with the “Blight Way,” a concept that allows “a certain degree of elasticity in the execution of legal matters.” Still, series fans will appreciate this affectionate send-off, which closes with a career retrospective of Sheriff Tully from the local paper, the Silver Tip Miner.

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