The Blight Way, Patrick F. McManus
The Blight Way, Patrick F. McManus
1 Rating(s)
List: $16.95 | Sale: $11.87
Club: $8.47

The Blight Way
A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery

Author: Patrick F. McManus

Narrator: Charles Leggett

Unabridged: 5 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/15/2006

Synopsis

Bo Tully is the sheriff of Blight County, Idaho, where law enforcement is usually pretty mundane: tracking down truants running away from school, picking up country boys who've had a few too many beers. But Tully gets a little more than the country norm when an ex-con calls with the startling news that there's a corpse draped across one of his fences. Tully needed a birthday present for his Pap (the retired sheriff) anyway, so the two of them head out to investigate the murder. In a tone that's wise-cracking one minute and the next, well, still wise-cracking, Tully and Pap use their wiles to figure out what's happening in this little and suddenly not-so-dull town.

About Patrick F. McManus

Patrick F. McManus (1933–2018) was an author, a renowned outdoor writer, humorist, and longtime columnist for Outdoor Life and Field & Stream magazines. He wrote the popular Sheriff Bo Tully mystery series, as well as many other books, including four New York Times bestsellers: The Grasshopper Trap, The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw, Real Ponies Don’t Go Oink, and Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs.

About Charles Leggett

Charles Leggett, AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator, is based in Seattle where he works onstage at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, ACT, and Seattle Shakespeare Company, among many others. His voice work is also featured in the first two Dungeon Siege video games as well as in Hoyle’s Casino Empire.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ed

I rated this book 4 stars mainly because I liked Blight County Idaho Sheriff Bo Tully, his intrepid deputies, his elderly father/sidekick Pap and Dave the cafe owner and tracker who might or might not be of Indian decent. They all contribute to a very entertaining and well written mystery that's qui......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W

Charming police procedural of the cozy kind; a Steven Havill novel with more humor, if you will. McManus is a humor writer and this series departs from that genre, but the quirkiness of the characters has a subtle humor that helps you appreciate and like them. The main character is Sheriff Bo Tully w......more

Goodreads review by Glen

Ever since Bill Crider's death, I've been looking for a series to replace his Sheriff Dan Rhodes series. I hoped this could be it. Set in very rural Idaho, the local outlaw family notifies the Sheriff that there's a body hanging on their fence. The guy is strangely wearing a suit and tie. On further......more

Quotes

“Everybody should read Patrick McManus.” New York Times Book Review, praise for the author

“A good-natured comic mystery…[McManus] peoples his shaggy plot with a variety of vivid, quirky characters…It’s good, goofy fun.” Seattle Times

“Prolific, popular outdoorsman and humorist McManus departs from his trademark shaggy-dog stories with this novel set in current-day Idaho, the first in a new mystery series starring Blight County sheriff Bo Tully…On the seventy-fifth birthday of his father…a dead body turns up at the ranch of a family of ex-cons. Bo decides a murder investigation would be the perfect birthday present for Pap…Behind his hayseed cop exterior, Bo is smart, sneaky and relentless. Add lots of quirky suspects, crisscrossing motives and artery-clogging meals at Dave’s House of Fry, and McManus delivers a brisk, hilarious small town cop mystery.” Publishers Weekly

“One of the most entertaining mystery debuts in years.” Kirkus Reviews

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List