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    Another Man's Ground: A Mystery

    By Claire Booth

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    "This contemporary take on a locked-room puzzle is chilling, compelling and completely entertaining, and Claire Booth is a wonderful new voice in crime fiction.”—Hank Phillippi Ryan on The Branson Beauty

    It starts out as an interesting little theft case. Branson, Missouri’s new Sheriff Hank Worth is called out to look at stands of trees that have been stripped of their bark, which the property owner had planned to harvest for the booming herbal supplement market. At first, Hank easily balances the demands of the investigation with his fledging political career. He was appointed several months earlier to the vacant sheriff position, but he needs to win the fast-approaching election in order to keep his job. He thinks the campaign will go well, as long as he’s able to keep secret the fact that a group of undocumented immigrants – hired to cut down the stripped trees – have fled into the forest and he’s deliberately not looking for them.

    But then the discovery of a murder victim deep in the Ozark backwoods sets him in the middle of a generations-old feud that explodes into danger not only for him, but also for the immigrants, his deputies, and his family. He must rush to find a murderer before election day, and protect the vulnerable in Branson County, where politicking is hell and trespassing can get you killed.

    In Another Man's Ground, her next novel featuring Sheriff Hank Worth, acclaimed author Claire Booth delivers a taut, witty mystery that will grip readers from the opening pages to the breathless conclusion.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJul 11, 2017
    ISBN9781250084422
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    Another Man's Ground: A Mystery
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    Claire Booth

    CLAIRE BOOTH is a former true crime writer, ghostwriter, and reporter. She lives in California. The Branson Beauty, featuring Sheriff Hank Worth, is her first novel.

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    • 4/5
      A good mystery. The characters are simple and complex at the same time. The story hops right along through the most important aspect doesn't appear until perhaps 2/3 of the way. The thing I would quibble about is the seeming lack of likable characters, even the main character, except for one of the deputies. We don't live in a world where few are likable. I will seek out more books by the author.
    • 4/5
      The second book in this series finds Sheriff Hank Worth having to navigate a lot of territory in his new hometown. First, a complaint about someone stealing the bark from elm trees out on someone's land and then, there's the election for sheriff. This is Hank's wife Maggie's hometown, so she knows what it will take for this outsider who was appointed to fulfill a term to win one on his own. It entails some of the humorous parts of the book, such as when campaign manager Darcy is appalled to learn Hank is actually from California, not just someone who lived there a little while. The slippery elm bark leads to the discovery of undocumented workers, drug trafficking in the backwoods of the county and long held grudges and secrets from warring families. It did not end how I thought it would and I really liked the growth these characters are receiving as the series goes on. Sam and Shelia, in particular.