On a bleak Christmas morning, Sewa Tribal Police Officer Heather English patrols a desolate canyon on the Arizona reservation.Her father, the Benteen County, Kansas Sheriff, is lonely eugh with family around to go work at his office.On the way, Sheriff English calms a wild incident in a church parking lot.Then receives a death threat.The creche, at the center of the town's largest holiday yard display, has been desecrated.Its owner plans to kill the neighbors he suspects are responsible.To keep their husband and father home, his family gives the sheriff the man's guns and promises t to let him make trouble.Soon the county fills with rumors that the sheriff is systematically violating Second Amendment rights and seizing every weapon.A local militia turns out, locked and loaded, and ready to do what it takes to stop him.Meanwhile, in Arizona, Heather stumbles on the newly-elected goverr, newly murdered.A te explains his death is part of a drug war.His killer promises Heather she'll be among the victims.Her Uncle Mad Dog, a Cheyenne wanna-be shaman, is involved.Someone thinks Mad Dog is a drug lord and sends him a last minute gift a severed human hand.Careful police work, a little Cheyenne magic, and maybe a Christmas miracle are needed to restore peace on earth.One slip, however, and Mad Dog, Sheriff English, and Heather will rest in peace eternally!
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN-10
1590589157
ISBN-13
9781590589151
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189968879
Product Key Features
Author
JM Hayes
Format
Unsewn / Adhesive Bound,PAPER over Boards,With Dust Jacket, Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Mad Dog & Englishman (Hardcover)
Author Biography
J.M. Hayes studied anthropology at Wichita State University and the University of Arizona.Still a Kansas boy at heart, he lives in Tucson with his wife and a small herd of German Shepherds.English Lessons is his seventh novel and sixth Mad Dog & Englishman Mystery.