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Summary: A fun read
Review: Be careful because this book will keep you up all night. I couldn't put it down when I started reading.
That is my idea of good mystery. I look forward to next installment. Kudos to Gene Wright.
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Summary: Candle Burner
Review: Be careful because this book will keep you up all night. I couldn't put it down when I started reading.
That is my idea of good mystery. I look forward to next installment. Kudos to Gene Wright.
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Summary: A fun read
Review: Gene Wright's first attempt at fiction is an engaging success. Although lightweight story and an easy read, this book compares favorably with the best of the genre. The plot is just twisted enough and contains a handful of surprises. The dialogue is smooth and witty. The characters are likeable, but clearly Mr. Wright plans to develop them in books to come, because he doesn't grow them much in these 200 pages. I can recommend highly this book to anyone who enjoys a good crime story that can be enjoyably put away in one sitting.
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Summary: An Ordinary Hero
Review: Jerry Valdez has made a good life for himself and his family. He is well-qualified as a county sheriff and well-respected by the people who voted for him and by his collegues in other law enforcement positions. He likes being sheriff and has built a staff he can depend on and one that he has fatherly feelings toward. Then a crime occurs in his county that is shocking in its viciousness and one in which his young deputy is the victim. The reader knows Jerry will solve the crime and avenge the death of his protegee. As he proceeds to do this we learn methods of preventing jail breaks, dealing with the FBI, escaping attacks on his life and that of his family, and tracking the powerful evil behind the mayhem that has entered his life. We also learn about preparing good food, the best place to eat in South Dallas and what is wrong with Memphis barbeque. I liked Jerry because he is a man who cares about people and likes to help them. He instinctively knows how to take care of himself when forced into horrible events he could not have expected in his peaceful, rural part of Texas. Thank
goodness he does not allow himself to be corrupted by drug money. Instead he does his job with integrity and stubborn pursuit. He solves the crime legally when that might not seem possible and only pushes the reader a little bit to believe the ending. This mystery also lets the reader into the Valdez family with a husband and wife who love and support one another and a son and daughter who are pleasant company and independent children. The family of an ordinary man who is also a hero. I look forward to spending more time reading about Jerry Valdez.
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Summary: An Ordinary Hero
Review: Jerry Valdez has made a good life for himself and his family. He is well-qualified as a county sheriff and well-respected by the people who voted for him and by his collegues in other law enforcement positions. He likes being sheriff and has built a staff he can depend on and one that he has fatherly feelings toward. Then a crime occurs in his county that is shocking in its viciousness and one in which his young deputy is the victim. The reader knows Jerry will solve the crime and avenge the death of his protegee. As he proceeds to do this we learn methods of preventing jail breaks, dealing with the FBI, escaping attacks on his life and that of his family, and tracking the powerful evil behind the mayhem that has entered his life. We also learn about preparing good food, the best place to eat in South Dallas and what is wrong with Memphis barbeque. I liked Jerry because he is a man who cares about people and likes to help them. He instinctively knows how to take care of himself when forced into horrible events he could not have expected in his peaceful, rural part of Texas. Thank
goodness he does not allow himself to be corrupted by drug money. Instead he does his job with integrity and stubborn pursuit. He solves the crime legally when that might not seem possible and only pushes the reader a little bit to believe the ending. This mystery also lets the reader into the Valdez family with a husband and wife who love and support one another and a son and daughter who are pleasant company and independent children. The family of an ordinary man who is also a hero. I look forward to spending more time reading about Jerry Valdez.
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Summary: Don't mess with Valdez
Review: Sheriff Jerry Valdez is a friendly, easygoing, Tex-Mex
eating, family man, well liked in Kendall County, tucked
away in the picturesque Texas Hill Country. If you're a
friend of Jerry's, you will be a friend for life, but if
you forget what a friend he is and try to one up him, or
snow him with your fancy education, you will find out fast
enough who you're dealing with. There's more to Jerry than
meets the eye.If you kill one of his deputies, and threaten his family,
the full measure of Sheriff Valdez is sure to rise before
you. It will not long be he who is threatened, but you who
must Run, Run ... If Valdez lacks any talent to bring you
down, he has friends to fill in the gaps, so that justice
will prevail, one way or the other. The action in this short novel takes off like a rocket and
proceeds cojones out to an interesting conclusion. It was
lots of fun to read.
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