Briarpatch (Crime Penguin)

About this book

A long-distance call from a Texas city on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sisterits her birthday too they were born exactly ten years aparthas died in a car bomb explosion. Its the chief of police callingFelicity Dill worked for him; she was a homicide detective. Dill is there that night the beginning of his dogged search for her killer. What he finds is no surprise to him because Benjamin Dill is never surprised at what awful things people will dobut its a real surprise to the reader. As Newsday said when the novel was first published One sure thing about Ross Thomass novels: A reader wont get bored waiting for the action to start.