The Obituary

I rarely give crime novels a 5 star rating just on general principle, but decided this one really earned it. The book is set in high plains small-town Wyoming, involves law enforcement hi-jinks, the local newspaper, corruption, highway crime and a misplaced body of the supposed Etta Place, girlfrien......more

A first-rate mystery, with literary heft lifting up the crackling craft to heights rarely touched by genre novels ... and almost never by self-published fare. Franscell, a Wyoming native, clearly knows the territory in this second tale in a series about small-town newspaper publisher and editor Jeff......more

Morgan fled from Chicago following the death of his young son from leukemia. He had little else to want but to start a small town newspaper in Winchester, his childhood home, a town filled with “peccadilloes and idiosyncrasies,” with his wife, Claire, and now a new son, Colter. A forensic team, head......more

The first thing I need to tell you is that netgalley provided a copy of this book in exchange for a fair review. The second thing is that I was bound to like it unless it was poorly written, since I'm in the process of moving to Wyoming and am enthralled by any book that provides a good sense of the......more