Nail's Crossing

By Kris Lackey

Book Overview

This debut mystery from a fresh voice in Southwestern fiction stakes out the common ground between Tony Hillerman, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy. In a remote corner of the Chickasaw Nation, tribal Lighthorse policeman Bill Maytubby and county deputy Hannah Bond discover the buzzard-ravaged body of Majesty Tate, a young drifter with a blank past. They comb Oklahoma's rock prairie, river bottoms, and hard-bitten small towns for traces of her last days. Tate was seen dancing with Austin Love, a violent local meth dealer fresh out of prison. An Oklahoma City motel clerk connects her with an aspiring politician. An oil-patch roustabout and a shady itinerant preacher provide dubious leads. Ne'er-do-wells start dying off. A fluke lead propels Maytubby deep into Louisiana's bayou country, where a Cajun shrimper puts him on the scent of a bizarre conspiracy. He and Bond reunite in the Chickasaw Nation for the eventual face-off at Nail's Crossing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1470814072
• ISBN13: 9781470814076
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

Customer Reviews

I like mysteries that combine the Southwest with Native American culture

I am trying some new authors in this genre. I love Tony & Anne Hillerman, William Kent Krueger, Aimee & David Thurlo. Sadly, nothing about this book pulled me in. I actually kept reading it because I thought it had to get better. The description of plants in the landscape kept hanging me up because I'd never heard of them & I felt like I needed to look them up. I thought the constant food selections of Maytubby were unnecessary. The storyline was ok, but I just couldn't get invested in it or the characters. I'm an avid reader of detective fiction & this author just didn't do it for me.