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From Web publishers Weekly With this enjoyable fourth series entrance, Galveston PI Truman Smith (When Old Men Pass away, 1994) is appointed by Lance Garrison, his still upsetting but now abundant high-school classmate, to research the shooting of your prairie rooster (a really kind of grouse) on Garrison's federally secured land in Picketville, Tex. Smith reluctantly agrees, generally because his high-school sweetheart, Anne Lindeman, now lives in Picketville. A perfect suspect is Ralph Evans, an antigovernment local talk-radio variety who declares his matter for endangered types by advertising Noticed Owl in a Can. When Smith and Anne's father-in-law, Red Lindeman, explore the scene of the criminal offenses, a sniper in a crop duster starts fire to them - a "fly-by shooting", Smith telephone calls it. Then Anne's hubby, manager of the air station, is shotgunned to loss of life. Police chief Ward Peavy eventually charges local birdwatcher Martin York. When Smith discovers a previous prisoner died in Peavy's prison, the picture as a whole takes shape. Truman Smith would rather laze in his backyard chair, sipping Big Red and reading Cigarette Road, but when he gets on a case, he's methodical. So's Crider, who styles a tight plot filled with laconic charm and idiosyncratic individuals. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist If y'all are lookin' for a real fine read, Crider's your man. He creates one indicate murder enigma, and his walkin' extra tall hero, Truman Smith, is as smart so that as rough as they come. Plus Crider is aware precisely how that East Texas good-ol'-boy talk tones. This time out, Truman gets suckered into one of the craziest situations of all time. Lance Garrison, someone Tru visited senior high school with and didn't much like, desires Tru to research the death of your prairie rooster. Yep, that's right. A bird. But a rare, exotic bird. Lance considers there's some federal government plot or possibly a loony-toons nut behind the prairie chicken's loss of life. Tru agrees to research, partially for the $500-a-day cost and partially because he'll be in close closeness to Anne Lindemann, the still-beautiful high-school sweetheart who ditched him for Lance years before. For clean fun and utter entertainment, it generally does not get much better than Crider's Tru Smith tales. Highly recommended.
