Death Rides Again
A Jocelyn Shore Mystery
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Publisher Description
With a family reunion that is getting smaller by the minute and more romance and humor than can be fenced in on any ranch, Janice Hamrick's Death Rides Again is another outstanding addition to her award-winning mystery series.
Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore had been looking forward to spending Thanksgiving at her Uncle Kel's ranch, but her visit takes an unexpected turn when she discovers Uncle Kel threatening his son-in-law Eddy with a shotgun. It seems that Kel, who is hosting the whole Shore clan, is none too happy about how Eddy has been treating his daughter Ruby June, and tensions are about to boil over.
Thanks to Jocelyn's quick thinking, Eddy makes it out alive, and it looks like Ruby June is going to toss him out for good. Yet no one knows for sure because that is the last anyone saw of Ruby June. The family pins the disappearance on Eddy and files a missing-persons report. Still, it isn't until Jocelyn and her sometime-boyfriend, Austin homicide detective Colin Gallagher, find Eddy's body at the bottom of a caliche pit that the police really take notice. Unfortunately, all eyes---including Colin's---are on Jocelyn's family as the most likely suspects. While Colin assists the local police, Jocelyn and her cousin Kyla decide to investigate on their own. Their hunt turns up a shady ranch manager, a mysterious racehorse owner, and an overly persistent goat, but no sign of Ruby June . . . or a killer who is poised to strike again.
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The shotgun murder of unpleasant Eddy Cranny spoils the Shore family reunion at the Smoky Quartz ranch in Hamrick's entertaining third cozy featuring Austin, Tex., teacher Jocelyn Shore (after 2012's Death Makes the Cut). It's hard for the clan to mourn Eddy, though Jocelyn is concerned when no one can find her cousin Ruby June, the victim's wife. That Ruby June's father, Kel Shore, had been threatening to do serious bodily harm to Eddy makes him a suspect. Meanwhile, the authorities have accused Herman Shore, the 95-year-old family patriarch, of ordering Kel to shoot a jockey at a race with a big purse a reasonable accusation since the horse's owner is in a land dispute with Kel. Jocelyn suspects that Carl Cress, Kel's sleazy business partner, shot the jockey, until she and another cousin, Kyla, discover that Carl may have a good alibi. Cozy fans will enjoy Jocelyn's quirky family and the wide array of criminal activities.
