Death at the Black Bull -- Frank Hayes, Paperback

Hayward is a sleepy Southwestern town full of cattle, trucks, and tumbleweeds. Virgil Dalton's been the sheriff for over a dozen years and has lived there all his life. It's a place where everybody pretty much knows everybody--but they don't know each other's secrets...

Buddy Hinton is just a good ole boy. So when he disappears after a night drinking at the Black Bull, his friends just figure he went down to Mexico to find himself a girlfriend and eventually will come back. But this case quickly becomes a homicide after the sheriff discovers the missing man floating in one of his stock tanks.

For a man who wasn't known to have enemies, Buddy clearly upset someone. Figuring out who that was will require Virgil and his deputy, Jimmy, to retrace Buddy's last steps--and to remain a step ahead of a murderer who may have no qualms about killing again ...

Author: Frank Hayes
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 10/07/2014
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780425274293

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/11/2014
Library Journal 09/01/2014 pg. 76
Booklist 09/15/2014 pg. 30

About the Author
Frank Hayes is a high school teacher who has started a new career as a novelist. He lives and writes in New York's mid-Hudson River valley. Death at the Black Bull is his first book.