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Donis Casey The Return of the Raven Mocker (Hardback) Alafair Tucker Mysteries
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- Book Title
- Return of the Raven Mocker : an Alafair Tucker Mystery
- Publication Name
- The Return of the Raven Mocker
- Title
- The Return of the Raven Mocker
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 1464207542
- EAN
- 9781464207549
- ISBN
- 9781464207549
- Publisher
- Sourcebooks, Incorporated
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Mystery & Detective / Historical, Crime, Mystery & Detective / General
- Release Year
- 2017
- Release Date
- 03/01/2017
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 8.8in
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Series
- Alafair Tucker Mysteries
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Item Weight
- 0.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 226 Pages
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"Vividly rendered and psychologically astute, this somewhat transparent puzzler provides an unusually immersive perspective on familiar historical territory." -- Booklist World War I is raging in Europe, but as the deadly influenza pandemic of 1918 sweeps like a wildfire through Boynton, Oklahoma, Alafair Tucker is fighting her own war. Her daughter, Alice, and son-in-law, Walter Kelley, have both come down with the flu, and Alafair has moved into town to care for them after quarantining her young children at their sister's farm. Boynton as a whole isolates itself like an old English plague village, discouraging anyone from coming into town and the residents from traveling outside. A new doctor applies science to treating the stricken, but Alafair applies all she knows about hygiene, nutrition, and old and trusted country remedies. Unable to aid her sons and sons-in-law fighting overseas, this is danger she can combat. One autumn afternoon, screams coming from next door alert Alafair that Alice's neighbor, Nola Thomason, and her son Lewis have suddenly and unexpectedly succumbed. Yet there is something about the way the pair died that causes Alafair to suspect their deaths were due to poison rather than to influenza. The epidemic is so overwhelming that it is many days before the only doctor left in town can confirm Alafair's suspicions; neither Nola nor Lewis died of the flu. The only witness to their deaths, twelve-year-old Dorothy Thomason, a special friend of Alafair's daughter, Sophronia, is so traumatized that she is rendered mute. Were Nola and her son murdered, and if so, why? The usual motives for murder are greed, or jealousy, or hatred. Or could it be, as Alafair fears, that the Raven Mocker, the most dreaded of the Cherokee wizards or witches, the evil spirit who takes to the air in a fiery shape to rob the old, the sick, and the dying of their lives, is hunting victims and bringing misery to the innocent?
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Publisher
Sourcebooks, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1464207542
ISBN-13
9781464207549
eBay Product ID (ePID)
228587444
Product Key Features
Book Title
Return of the Raven Mocker : an Alafair Tucker Mystery
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Historical, Crime, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
226 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
9
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The Return of the Raven Mocker (An Alafair Tucker Mystery) by Donis Casey is a compelling book. I gave it five stars because the characters came to life and kept my attention.... I had not read Donis Casey's books before and am thrilled to discover an established series. I added all of them to my wish list., Grimly realistic, this unusual mystery - ninth in the series - set during the flu pandemic of 1918, graphically portrays, from a caregiver's perspective, nursing the desperately ill and witnessing horrible deaths, while also worrying about loved ones fighting overseas. Vividly rendered and psychologically astute, this somewhat transparent puzzler provides an unusually immersive perspective on familiar historical territory., The Return of the Raven Mocker is well written tale. I found it immensely enjoyable and I'm sure you will too. Read the entire series!!! I highly recommend The Return of the Raven Mocker., Anyone not knowing the name Alafair Tucker of Boynton, Oklahoma has missed some very delightful writing. Alafair is a woman of strong character. She has to be as she is the mother of ten children most of them grown by now in this ninth of her series.... I have enjoyed this series very much. On opening the first page, I feel myself being pulled into the Tucker family - happily so., What a great time to commit murder. During a major pandemic. Who's to know? Who's going to even notice? A delightful story. One not to be missed if you are fascinated by the Spanish flu outbreak of 1918., Grimly realistic, this unusual mystery----ninth in the series----set during the flu pandemic of 1918, graphically portrays, from a caregiver's perspective, nursing the desperately ill and witnessing horrible deaths, while also worrying about loved ones fighting overseas. Vividly rendered and psychologically astute, this somewhat transparent puzzler provides an unusually immersive perspective on familiar historical territory., Anyone not knowing the name Alafair Tucker of Boynton, Oklahoma has missed some very delightful writing. Alafair is a woman of strong character. She has to be as she is the mother of ten children most of them grown by now in this ninth of her series.~~~ I have enjoyed this series very much. On opening the first page, I feel myself being pulled into the Tucker family - happily so., The Return of the Raven Mocker (An Alafair Tucker Mystery) by Donis Casey is a compelling book. I gave it five stars because the characters came to life and kept my attention.~~~ I had not read Donis Casey's books before and am thrilled to discover an established series. I added all of them to my wish list., Grimly realistic, this unusual mystery--ninth in the series--set during the flu pandemic of 1918, graphically portrays, from a caregiver's perspective, nursing the desperately ill and witnessing horrible deaths, while also worrying about loved ones fighting overseas. Vividly rendered and psychologically astute, this somewhat transparent puzzler provides an unusually immersive perspective on familiar historical territory., Casey's thoughtful ninth Alafair Tucker mystery (after 2015's All Men Fear Me) ably evokes rural Oklahoma in 1918. In remote Boynton, farm wife Alafair prays for an end to the hostilities in Europe as her youngest child starts school. Meanwhile, the flu pandemic of that year turns Boynton into a battleground. Townspeople by the score fall ill, the Tucker children are unofficially quarantined at a relative's home, and Alafair moves into town to nurse her daughter Alice and Alice's husband, who are both sick with the flu. When Alice's neighbor Nola Thomason and her adult son, Lewis, die suddenly, Alafair suspects foul play rather than flu, a concern exacerbated by the discovery that Nola's husband has taken out a $25,000 insurance policy on her life. In tandem with new-to-town medic Emmett Carney, Alafair sleuths and keeps her loved ones safe. Readers may find Alafair's huge extended family hard to keep straight, but the homespun mood remains winning, while the impact of world history on the Ozarks is skillfully evoked., The mystery comes in second (or maybe third) to history lessons and paeans to traditional American values in this folksy tale of small towns and big hearts.
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