All the Old Lions by Carol Caverly (
SYKM) is the 1st in her Thea Barlow series of contemporary cozy murder mysteries set in in Wyoming, starring the eponymous Chicago magazine editor who regularly visits its apparently murder-filled small towns, as cozy small towns so often turn out to be, this installment involving an assignment to get the colourful story of a now-defunct local whorehouse, whereupon murder inevitably ensues, free courtesy of publisher ePublishing Works! (exclamation mark theirs), who are e-printing it from its 1994 edition out from small press Write Way.
This is B&N's featured Free Fridays book of the week, and you can see the author's own recommended reading choice in their
dedicated blogpost here, which incidentally names a book that's 6th in a series from which we've already
received the 1st one free, if you're interested.
Currently free @
B&N (may also drop in the
UK),
Kobo &
iTunes &
Google Play (all available to Canadians). These usually get price-matched @
Amazon in selected regions eventually, so linkage for your price-drop-check convenience.
Description
Thea Barlow, Chicago native and newly minted editor for the city's Western True Adventures magazine, is on her first assignment: prove her worth by getting the story of Halfway Halt, a defunct whorehouse in Hijax, Wyoming.
Upon arrival in Hijax, Thea is met with hostility. Assuming Thea is the "new girl" for the whorehouse, the townsfolk do not want the old days revived or their secrets revealed.
Then a local woman is murdered and the present owner of Halfway Halt is found unconscious in an old building. Now Thea must dig deep to unravel the mysteries of Halfway Halt if she's to get the story... and survive.