Hornswoggled

I'm not a cozy kind of guy, but I recently found Donis Casey's series featuring Alafair Tucker, farm wife, mother and amateur sleuth in early Twentieth Century Oklahoma,and I am experiencing the zeal of the new convert. While I still prefer my crime fiction darker, I relish each visit to the Tucker......more

HORNSWOGGLED by Donis Casey (Mystery Fiction, cozy) 2.5 star rating I so enjoyed the first in this series, The Old Buzzard Had it Coming, when I read it in 2010. There was a clever mystery, and Alifair Tucker seemed a down-to-earth and intelligent protagonist. It’s awful how long it takes me to get ba......more

I bought this book, excited to find a new mystery author, from Oklahoma. The first in the series wasn't available at this store so I settled for #2. I enjoyed the book mainly for its historical setting in Oklahoma, the first decade after statehood. Casey included many details of what life was like i......more

Another fun entry in the historical mystery series from Oklahoma. It's 1913, and another of Alafair's daughters is ready for romance. But is the beau she's chosen the man he seems? Or is he part of a sinister murder? Alafair decides to find out before something bad happens to her headstrong eighteen......more