Haunt of the Nightingale: A Garth Ryland Mystery (Garth Ryland Mystery #4)
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- Synopsis
- As Christmas approaches a string of footprints tracked in the season's first snow leads Garth Ryland to his own barn and a stranger armed with an ax she knows how to use--Garth can tell by her stance. Even though she doesn't answer his cautious questions, even though it's his barn, something in her bearing, something in her silence, something in her cornflower blue eyes lets him let her be. Shortly after the stranger's arrival Will Cripe and Paul Peters disappear and some folks around town take a different attitude toward the ax-armed blond. A few think she escaped from the prison up north. Others think she's Annie Lawson, come back for revenge. No one's seen Annie or her abusive husband since they both dropped out of sight seven years ago. If she can take care of one man, couldn't she take an ax to another? Garth doesn't believe the woman who haunts his barn, who can't speak, but can sing like a nightingale, would send a man to his grave, and he does what he can to protect her privacy. But Will Cripe, an aging, dying sage, Garth's boyhood mentor, manhood friend, and Paul Peters, a diffident, cynical man who wasted more talent than any other person in Oakalla, had only one thing in common, other than disappearing at about the same time: Seven years ago they both loved a woman named Annie Lawson. These mysteries are all set in Oakalla, Wisconsin, a very small town that is a combination of two great American classics: exterior by Norman Rockwell, interior by Edgar Allan Poe. Bookshare's library contains many more books in the Garth Ryland series including: The Last Laugh, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, The Glory Hound, One Man's Poison, Killing Frost, Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, Cold Hearts and Gentle People, Snow on the Roses, The Lost Scout, He Who Waits, Dead Letter, A Dragon Lives Forever, Hunting Ground, and Cold Rain.
- Copyright:
- 1988
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 190 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780934878975
- Publisher:
- Red Dembner Enterprises Corp.
- Date of Addition:
- 07/03/21
- 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.