Avalanche, Patrick F. McManus
Avalanche, Patrick F. McManus
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Avalanche

Author: Patrick F. McManus

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Unabridged: 6 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/08/2017


Synopsis

When the call comes in that Mike Wilson, the unlikable owner of West Branch Lodge, has gone missing, Sheriff Tully is delighted. This is an excellent opportunity for Tully, his tracker pal Dave, and his retired sheriff father, Pap, to enjoy a few evenings of hot tubs and single-malt scotch at the luxurious lodge while working the case. However, visions of R & R vanish in a flash on the drive up, when Tully and Pap suddenly realize an avalanche is thundering down the mountain, straight toward them.

Tully manages to outrun the crush of snow, but the road behind is blocked, and there's no telling for how long. Tully's stranded at the lodge with a motley group of vacationers and locals: a sassy co-ed, a group of rambunctious fraternity boys, a shadowy group of what looks like ex-cons, the missing owner's wife, a suspiciously good-looking bartender, and worst (or perhaps best) of all, Tully's old flame, who shows up with her dogsled and naughty intentions.

Both vacationers and locals start to look like suspects when Tully discovers startling evidence proving that the avalanche was no accident of nature. But why would anybody want him dead? And then the missing persons case turns into a murder case when Mike Wilson's body turns up in the river a couple of days later.

About Patrick F. McManus

Patrick F. McManus is a renowned outdoor writer, humorist, and longtime columnist for Outdoor Life and Field & Stream. His most recent books are the Sheriff Bo Tully mysteries Avalanche and The Blight Way. He is the author of many other books, including such runaway New York Times bestsellers as The Grasshopper Trap, The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw, and Real Ponies Don't Go Oink! He lives in Spokane, Washington.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Eric_W on June 20, 2017

This is the second Bo Tully story I have read and it's even more enjoyable than the first. The interplay between the characters, Bo father and ex-sheriff who made a fortune as a corrupt sheriff, Lurch, his CSI, Daisy, the secretary, and Herb, the under-sheriff, is charming and humorous. Bo is called......more

Goodreads review by Amy on August 29, 2020

I enjoyed the mystery and setting so much BUT Tully's interactions with women were so weird and unrealistic that the book gets docked two whole stars.......more

Goodreads review by Dj on April 06, 2015

When someone recommends that I read a book, I generally check out the other books they have wrote. In this case I didn't have to, I have read some of the other books that Patrick F. McManus has written. Such wonderful wonders of comic relief like 'The Grasshopper Trap' 'They Shoot Canoes Don't They?......more

Goodreads review by Wanda on April 12, 2021

A fun, not deeply serious mystery set in Idaho. Sheriff Bo Tully is called to investigate when the owner of a lodge goes missing. He takes his dad along, the former sheriff, and head to the lodge. They barely miss getting killed in an avalanche and he rescues some lodge guests. The avalanche cuts of......more

Goodreads review by Sue on September 28, 2020

I got a kick out of this western mystery set in Idaho. There's serious stuff going on, but Sheriff Tully has a wry and amusing inner mind that makes me smile. Plus he's surrounded by a curious set of characters, like his gruff & tough father, his tracker pal pretending to be a Native American so he......more