Texas Red River Mysteries: The Rock Hole (Paperback)

from SamSattler

When I first picked up Reavis Wortham's The Rock Hole, I expected it to be a cozy-type mystery with a nostalgic Texas setting. After all, the book's central character is a small-town Texas constable who is really starting to feel his age, and the book's sometime-narrator is the man's ten-year-old...

from Coltfan18

White constable Ned Parker with the help of black sheriff John Washington are investigating the mutilations and deaths of animals. These men respect each other though others don't like the idea of a black sheriff even though he's the sheriff of the black town. Now someone is after Ned's grandchil...

from lewilliams

This is a Texas mystery that takes place in 1964. Top, a 10 year old boy is sent to live with his grandparents. His grandfather Ned Parker is a Constable and small time cotton farmer. He and big John Washington find themselves trying to solve a series of animal mutilations that turn into murder. ...

from TVNerd95

It has been a long time since I enjoyed a book so much. There were many times I laughed, cussed and yelled in the car while listening this to the book. Reavis Wortham has created a intense thriller wrapped up in a coming of age story. The book starts straight away with the mystery that Constabl...

from cathyskye

I had a feeling that I was going to enjoy this first book in Reavis Z. Wortham's Red River mystery series, but I had no idea that I would love it and immediately go back to the bookstore to buy the rest of the series. As I read The Rock Hole, I was reminded of another perfect evocation of a time,...