The Devil's Country

Name: The Devil's Country
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Harry Hunsicker
ISBN: 9781531890995

Author: Harry Hunsicker

Series: Arlo Baines #1

Narrator: Eric G. Dove

Unabridged: 7 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 04/11/2017

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Crime, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled, Police Procedural

Synopsis

Former Texas Ranger Arlo Baines didn't come to the tiny West Texas town of Piedra Springs to cause trouble. After his wife and children were murdered, Arlo just wants to be left alone. Moving from place to place seems to be the only thing that eases the pain of his family's violent end.But a chance encounter outside a bar forces him to rescue a terrified woman and her children from mysterious attackers. When the woman turns up murdered the next day—her children missing—Arlo becomes the primary suspect in exactly the same type of crime he is trying desperately to forget.Haunted by the fate of his family, and with the police questioning the existence of the dead woman's children, Arlo decides it's his duty to find them. The question is, just how deep will he have to sink into the dusty secrets of Piedra Springs to save them and clear his name?

About Harry Hunsicker

Harry Hunsicker is the former executive vice president of the Mystery Writers of America. His work has been short-listed for both the Shamus and Thriller Awards. He lives in Dallas. The Devil's Country is his seventh novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bam cooks the books on September 01, 2017

This mystery is a good, quick read--a nice change of pace from some heavier reading. The hero of the story is Arlo Baines, a former Texas Ranger, who is traveling the countryside by bus, seeking solitude and anonymity after the murder of his wife and children. Arlo is strong and intelligent and able......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on March 26, 2017

The only way to cope with losing his wife and children for Arlo Baines has been to keep on the move around the state of Texas. Hopping off a bus in the small town of Piedra Springs however brings Arlo into the middle of a mystery. Arlo used to be a Texas Ranger before the loss of his family and when......more

Goodreads review by L.A. on October 14, 2018

This west Texas noir mixes a perfect, and tragic, backstory with fiction based on all-too-real events. Hunsicker has created a deeply haunted protagonist, Arlo Baines, and peopled the fictional Piedra Springs with interesting and well-drawn characters, vivid scenery, and great dialogue. No rural cli......more