Actually, the category might be better defined as "mystery with a light touch." In fact, if Belt Ferguson's foxhounds hadn't found a body on a knoll just northeast of Gouge Cove, sheriff's deputies and the FBI might never have resolved the puzzling incident at Roan High Bluff. You might want to read "Cloudland," the chapter in which the foxhounds star.
Pick a likely site on the North Carolina/Tennessee border. Add a cast of not so hardy oldsters on a high-ticket tour of the Southern Appalachians, the suggestion of malfeasance, a body or two. Amateur sleuths Sarah Pool and Isabel MacKirk strive to save their own lives and that of their friend before it's too late. It's kind of fun. It's free of objectionable language, sex, and violence. Hence, it makes a safe, informal gift for very special friends.
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Page 193 - "Weird," the Colonel said. He spoke softly ...
"Sounds like a pack of wolves," Isabel said.
"It's foxhounds," Sarah said as she raised her head away from the cliff wall to listen more closely ...
"Are they looking for us?"
"I doubt it. I think they would need to use bloodhounds for that."
Who's ripping off the Federal prison system---and how?
A funny crime caper with a diabolically clever scam--Imagine Charlie's Angels starring in 9 to 5 Meets the First Wives Club
Pastor Preston Woods who has been hurt so much in the past is seeking a fresh start in the small town of Pinecrest. But when he arrives, he finds himself in the middle of a town struggling with deep-rooted corruption, and a community divided by secre