Violence doesn't always go away just because the convicted perpetrator goes to prison. In a small midwestern town, a dedicated police professional must deal with the fallout of a terrible crime from years earlier. Will he also find out that a great injustice was done even while a new set of crimes is unfolding, and will that finding transform his life?

Sense of Grace

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

McGonegal, Richard F

Mystery

Cave Hollow Press

Review "McGonegal's Sheriff Francis Hood belongs right up there with Longmire and Robicheaux. Ghoul Duty swept me away from the very first page." M. A. Monnin Author of Death in The Aegean"An engaging mystery that invites the reader to root for the sheriff as he struggles with recovery from alcoholism and emotional conundrums, tracks multiple crimes, and reaches realistic solutions. (No actual ghouls.)" Charley PearsonAward-winning author of thrillers and humor"Ghoul Duty is that rare mystery that uses a cast of beautifully rendered characters and a natural storyteller's fine hand to showcase some of life's most compelling ironies-how the placid waters of ordinary life often conceal treacherous currents beneath the surface, how small mistakes can produce awful catastrophes while catastrophic mistakes sometimes yield the small graces that make life so rich, and how one person's detour into desperate territory can serve as another person's bridge to salvation." Roger JohnsAward-winning author ofthe Wallace Hartman Mysteries Product Description A flooded cemetery, a corpse that was never buried, and a recently released convict who has every reason to hate Sheriff Hood...After a menacing flood disinters corpses and coffins from a small-town parish cemetery along the Missouri river, Sheriff Francis Hood and his chief deputy take on the task of Ghoul Duty: collecting the misplaced remains and seeing them returned to the cemetery. But their muddy evening patrol takes a sinister turn when they haul in a body that hasn't been buried.As Hood sets out to determine who the man is and how he died, his already complicated personal life is muddled further when he starts receiving anonymous phone messages. Hood suspects they may be related to the recent release of an ex-convict, whose father was killed by Hood in a shootout. He must learn the truth, and soon, before the threats bring the past back to haunt him, his family, and the town.Unravel the secrets troubling Sheriff Francis Hood - Read Ghoul Duty!

Ghoul Duty (Sheriff Francis Hood)

The publisher of a family-owned newspaper serving Huhman County, Missouri has been missing for over a year... Until an arm bone found in the woods turns the missing-person case into a homicide investigation. After exposing a false alibi, Sheriff Francis Hood focuses on the surviving family members, but his investigation is not without complications. The victim's stepdaughter, one of Hood's old high-school classmates, has an unsettling ability to remember the events of her life-and the lives of others-in minute detail. Two of the victim's sons actively oppose Hood's efforts to win re-election. And the victim's wife, another son, and a former foster child are reluctant to reveal things that might help Hood close the case. Will the combined stresses of the murder case and re-election campaign derail Hood's ongoing recovery from alcoholism, which is finally gaining traction now that he has reunited with his wife and daughter? Unravel the personal and professional knots bedeviling Sheriff Francis Hood-Read The Forget-Me-Knot!

The Forget-Me-Knot (Sheriff Francis Hood)

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Sense of Grace

Ghoul Duty (Sheriff Francis Hood)

The Forget-Me-Knot (Sheriff Francis Hood)