Cruel As the Grave - Softcover
The killing of Naresse Clouse, mother of four, was the stuff of nightmares. The pretty restaurant hostess was shot, stabbed, and left hanging in a rural barn, where some said she was meeting a lover. Three years later her killer has not been found, but no one in Sheffield, Mississippi, has forgotten her, including Sheriff Grover Bramlett....
Bramlett loves his wife of thirty-seven years, down-home cooking, painting watercolors, and his job. He keeps tabs on the country roads of Chakchiuma County, rich folks as well as poor, and the hot emotions that have sirens screaming in the night. But when a middle-aged salesman is gunned down, Bramlett is surprised to find the man had been asking about Naresse. That link sends Bramlett back over ground he'd covered before, unearthing a dirty little secret, digging deeper into witnesses' memories, and heading for the dangerous territory where race, passion, and hatred meet and a ruthless killer waits.
Bramlett loves his wife of thirty-seven years, down-home cooking, painting watercolors, and his job. He keeps tabs on the country roads of Chakchiuma County, rich folks as well as poor, and the hot emotions that have sirens screaming in the night. But when a middle-aged salesman is gunned down, Bramlett is surprised to find the man had been asking about Naresse. That link sends Bramlett back over ground he'd covered before, unearthing a dirty little secret, digging deeper into witnesses' memories, and heading for the dangerous territory where race, passion, and hatred meet and a ruthless killer waits.
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"Armistead beautifully portrays a small place where it's very hard to keep a secret outside the grave."
--The Washington Times
About the Author:
--The Washington Times
"A real page-turner."
--Booklist
"[Armistead] writes damn good mysteries."
--Biloxi Sun Herald [Miss.]
John Armistead is religion editor for the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. He is a native of Mobile, Alabama, and a graduate of Mississippi College and the University of Mississippi. He currently lives with his wife in Tupelo, Mississippi, where his hobbies include riding his Electra Glide Harley-Davidson, fly-fishing, and painting. He is also the author of A Legacy of Vengeance and A Homecoming for Murder.
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- PublisherDell
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0440224373
- ISBN 13 9780440224372
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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