The Old Buzzard Had It Coming, Donis Casey
The Old Buzzard Had It Coming, Donis Casey
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The Old Buzzard Had It Coming
An Alafair Tucker Mystery

Author: Donis Casey

Narrator: Pam Ward

Unabridged: 7 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/19/2012

Synopsis

Alafair Tucker is a strong woman and the core of her familys life on a farm in Oklahoma where backbreaking work and the daily logistics of caring for her husband and their nine children, and of being a good neighbor, requires determination and a clear head. Shes also a woman of strong opinions, and it is her opinion that her neighbor, Harley Day, is a drunkard and a reprobate. So, when Harleys body is discovered frozen in a snowdrift one January day in 1912, she isnt surprised that his long-suffering family isnt particularly broken up. When Alafair helps Harleys wife prepare the body for burial, she discovers that Harleys demise was anything but natural: there is a bullet lodged behind his ear. And when she hears that Harleys son, John Lee, is the prime suspect in his fathers murder, she grows concernedher seventeen-year-old daughter Phoebe is in love with the boy. At first, Alafairs only fear is that Phoebe is in for a broken heart, but as she begins to unravel the events that led to Harleys death, she discovers that Phoebe might be more than just John Lees sweetheart: she may be his accomplice in murder. But a man like Harley turns many people against him, and whoever said there are some things even a mother cant fix never met Alafair Tucker. Pitch-perfect for the Oklahoma frontier, Donis Caseys first novel in the Alafair Tucker mystery series is both a compelling mystery and a remarkable evocation of the hard work and family joys of life one hundred years ago.

About Donis Casey

Donis Casey is an award-winning author whose first novel The Old Buzzard Had It Coming was named an Oklahoma Centennial Book in 2008. She has twice won the Arizona Book Award and has been a finalist for the Willa Award. A former teacher, academic librarian, and entrepreneur, she currently resides in Tempe, Arizona.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shirley on June 29, 2015

I tried this book simply because I loved the title. This is the first book in the Alafair Tucker mystery series. And what a protagonist Alafair is. She's a 35 year old mother of nine children! The setting is 1912 Boynton, Oklahoma. Alafair and her husband Shaw are farmers in the thriving town of Boy......more

Goodreads review by Jim on October 21, 2014

Not quite a 4 star listen as it dragged on a bit, but close enough. I had some issues with timing a couple of times, but that was fairly minor compared to the setting. The time is 1912, the heroine a mother of most of a dozen, Alafair, & the mystery is figuring out who killed a man that everyone tho......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on December 21, 2012

The death of a cruel and drunken ne'er-do-well opens Donis Casey's The Old Buzzard Had It Coming. No one's sorry when Harley Day is found dead in a snow drift -- not his neighbors, not the sheriff, not the town folk of Boynton, Oklahoma, and especially not the wife he beat and the 19-year-old son he......more

Goodreads review by Jan Mc on February 25, 2019

I loved this story and enjoyed the homespun details of 1912 Oklahoma smalltown life. Alafair Tucker is a little too good to be true, but the mystery was a good one. I read one of the latter books in the series a few years ago and was glad to start over with this one. I don't read a lot of cozy myste......more

Goodreads review by Maureen on August 13, 2009

The title caught my eye, but I didn't have great expectations for it. I think I picked it up because there was an endorsement by Tony Hillerman on the dustjacket. I finished the book in two evenings, and thoroughly enjoyed it! It evokes a not-so-distant time and place in the early 1900's that my adm......more

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