Taking a respite from the Western genre, author Larry D. Sweazy stretches his talents in THE DEVIL’S BONES, a modern thriller. It has only slight touches of a modern Western, in the sense that it takes place in a Midwestern small town where dark secrets have been hidden for years. And they are about to rear their ugly head, due to a summer drought.
It all starts when local deputy Jordan McManus is called upon by his boss to meet him at a pond where he’s made a grisly discovery: the skeleton of a small child. The bones could belong to the one case the marshal has never shaken: the disappearance of a young Mexican boy named Tito Cordova.
In his possession, the marshal has a letter pointing him to the location, as well as a small medal the boy used to own. Things turn ugly quickly when shots are fired at both men. Could this have been a set-up all along, to finally close the case? When the marshal takes a bullet and bleeds all over Jordan, all eyes look squarely at the deputy as the culprit, leaving it up to him to unravel the truth.
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2 comments:
Nice review, Larry. And from what I'm reading, well said. This is a helluva book. Good on ya.
Thanks, Matt. This book means a lot to me...
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