Snow on the Roses: A Garth Ryland Mystery (A Garth Ryland Mystery #12)

Synopsis

There are some deaths you don't want to contemplate. You can't. The loss would be too great. That's how Garth Ryland, editor of the Oakalla (Wisconsin) Reporter, felt about Doc Airhart. The doc was his hunting companion, his mentor, the friendly ear who gave Garth wise, if sometimes caustic, counsel. Doc had always been there for Garth. And now he was gone. Doc's niece Abby found him in bed one morning, clad in silk pajamas with the hint of a smile on his face. A peaceful death in his sleep. What else could it be? After all, Doc was ninety and had heart problems. But there was the uneasiness of the dog barking in the night and Abby's feeling someone had been in the house. And then there was the question of the next installment of "Doc Remembers," the memoirs he had been writing for the Reporter, the one recalling 1962. Where was it? Nineteen sixty-two. Garth hadn't been around Oakalla much then. He only came in the summer to visit his Grandmother Ryland. But he soon discovered that was the year the body was found over near Wildwood Bridge, the body of a University of Wisconsin zoology professor who drowned after slipping on some rocks. Or had two bodies been found, as Dewey Clinton insisted? But who ever listened to Dewey, with his low IQ and to get things mixed up? Garth didn't want to believe Doc had been murdered, but as events became more muddled and twisted, he had to find out what happened--not only today but in that yesterday of thirty years ago. As Garth asked questions, he got the prickly feeling of being watched and stalked. He might have turned his suspicions over to the "law," but the law in Oakalla was temporarily Deputy Sheriff Eugene Yuill, who wasn't too far behind Dewey Clinton in the dim-bulb department. Besides, Eugene was missing. As questions piled on questions, Garth found himself in one of the most complex and dangerous mysteries he'd ever encountered. The life of rural America may appear bucolic and serene on the surface, but its underbelly is covered with warts and cancers. Critics have praised author John R. Riggs as having a keen ear for the cadence of small-town USA. He also captures the chilling evil of human nature, whether in the backwoods or the big city. Threatened, man--and woman--will commit unthinkable acts to protect what they claim as theirs. Most of the riveting mysteries set in the bleak and beautiful small town and rural area of Wisconsin, solved by Garth Ryland are in the Bookshare library including: #1 The Last Laugh, #3 The Glory Hound, #4 Hunting Ground, #6. Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, #7 One Man's Poison, #8. Dead Letter, #9. A Dragon Lives Forever, #10. Cold Hearts and Gentle People, #Killing Frost, #The Lost Scout and #14. He Who Waits, with more on the way.

Copyright:

1996

Book Details

Book Quality:

Excellent

Book Size:

272 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781569800720

Publisher:

Barricade Books, Incorporated

Date of Addition:

06/22/20

Copyrighted By:

John R. Riggs

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Outdoors and Nature

Submitted By:

Evan Reese

Proofread By:

Lissi

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.