These Mortal Remains
A Mystery
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Publisher Description
"Milton Burton writes with a ruthless charm rivaling the great Raymond Chandler." —Kinky Freidman
Milton T. Burton has charmed readers for years with his Texas mysteries, notable for their backwoods flair, down-home characters, and Southern-flavored sense of humor. In These Mortal Remains, Sheriff Bo Handel returns in a mystery which will have Burton's many fans hooting and hollering.
Bo Handel knows Texas's Caddo County inside and out, from the town drunks to the teen troublemakers with too much time on their hands. But when Toby, an African-American deputy and one of Bo's best cops, is shot and left wounded on the side of the road, Bo's eyes are opened to a side of his county that he's never before seen. A group of white supremacists are occupying a compound on the edge of town, and a few key members are determined to wreak havoc on those they hate.
Suspenseful, provocative, and smart, These Mortal Remains is a fantastic final book from a beloved Southern talent.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Burton's posthumously published sequel to 2010's Nights of the Red Moon suggests that Beauregard "Bo" Handel, the 63-year-old sheriff of fictional Caddo County in East Texas would have become a well-loved series character had the author not died in 2011. Bo investigates the Aryan League, a local white supremacist group founded by renowned language professor Afton Spencer. Afton is erudite, but his group includes violent, criminal members who may be responsible both for the murder of a local contractor and D-Day veteran and a shooting that left Bo's African-American deputy, Toby Parsons, in a coma. Bo receives help from FBI contacts, who have a mole notorious "Dixie Mafia" member Jasper Sparks inside the League, but he also encounters obstruction from an uncooperative ATF agent, interfering politicians, and a grandstanding community leader. Burton's strong sense of local color never becomes regional caricature, preserving the suspense and credibility of this sadly final out-ing for Bo.
