Compound Murder
A Dan Rhodes Mystery
Bill Crider
(Minotaur Books – hardback, Kindle)
“Prolific” is an understatement when describing Texas writer Bill Crider. He has published more than 75 crime, Western, and horror novels. His entertaining police procedural, Compound Murder, is his 20th mystery novel featuring Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes and his department’s quirky staff. The central mystery in Compound Murder revolves around finding who killed an English instructor behind the only building of a community college’s small branch campus. And, when it comes time to jump a fence and sprint into open danger against a gunman armed with an AR-15, Sheriff Rhodes has to face a clear reality. He has aged just a bit and is no longer “as elastic as he’d once been.” But he’s the sheriff, so he has to put fear aside and try it anyway.
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