Kris Lackey, Author University of Nebraska Press $50 (164p) ISBN 978-0-8032-2924-2
Though not for the ""general audience"" touted in the Preface (sentences such as ""[Heat-Moon] conflates the decimation of the Plains Indians and the subsequent obliteration of regional folkways by commercial icons and specialized labor"" limit the...
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Kris Lackey. Blackstone, $26.99 (216p) ISBN 978-1-4708-1407-6
Lackey’s atmospheric if initially confusing first novel revolves around the members of several law enforcement agencies with overlapping jurisdictions in hot and arid present-day Oklahoma. Tribal police officer William Maytubby and County Deputy...
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Kris Lackey. Blackstone, $25.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4708-1408-3
Set in the Oklahoma countryside, where it’s possible to track a car by the cloud of dust it’s raising on a gravel road, Lackey’s excellent sequel to 2017’s Nail’s Crossing charts the investigations of two different but equally able cops. Clever and...
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Kris Lackey. Blackstone, $25.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-9826-8927-8
The discovery of a body floating in a creek propels Lackey’s subpar third mystery featuring Sgt. Bill Maytubby of Oklahoma’s Chickasaw Lighthorse Police and Johnston County Deputy Hannah Bond (after 2019’s Greasy Bend). At the crime scene, Maytubby...
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