Here is a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found by sleuthing (as it were) through new or recently reissued titles from independent publishers …
Evil at the Root by Bill Crider is the fifth mystery in this series featuring Sheriff Dan Rhodes, first published in hardcover by St. Martin's Press in 1990.
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Evil at the Root by Bill Crider
A Dan Rhodes Mystery
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Publication Date: October 07, 2013
Sheriff Dan Rhodes, the small-town Texas lawman, is sent to investigate the apparent theft of a set of false teeth from one of the elderly residents of the Sunny Dale Nursing Home. The case, which begins as one merely embarrassing ("Ah ain't got no TEEF!") quickly turns serious when the owner of the missing dentures, one Lloyd Bobbit, is found suffocated with a plastic grocery bag.
The prime suspect is a fellow Sunny Daler, Maurice Kennedy, who was known to have had no love for the cantankerous Bobbit — a feud that originated way, way back in the youth of the two men. Now Kennedy is missing — but is he the killer or another victim?
Meanwhile, Rhodes and his two attenuated jailers have been hit with a lawsuit claiming dangerous and inhumane conditions at the local jail. There's not much of a case, considering that the town's best cook provides the prisoners' meals. With all that's going on, Rhodes scarcely has time to pay proper attention to his fortunately ever-patient fiancée, Ivy Daniel.
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