Prairie Gothic (Mad Dog & Englishman Series)

by J.M. Hayes

Book Overview

As a howling blizzard blows down upon the sparsely-populated Benteen County seat of Buffalo Springs, Kansas, Sheriff English encounters a doll and a dead baby. Their bodies have been switched, but by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590580508
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 5.6"

Customer Reviews

Gothic Indeed

Mad Dog is at it again, this time determined to give an old man a proper burial, Wynnsome is still clueless, and the blizzard becomes a major character in the story. A lot of serious subjects get dealt with here, but with enough likable characters and comic relief to keep it moving.

Interesting and funny

Mad Dog, a half Cheyenne self-appointed shaman is only following the wishes of his recently deceased fellow Native American to give him an authentic burial. That's when someone starts taking shots at him. In the meantime, his brother, Sheriff (Englishman) English is called to a nursing home with a report of a kidnapped baby. While a blizzard rages, Englishman needs to find his brother, discover how the baby was killed, and head off an increasingly crazy group of locals. Author J. M. Hayes delivers an often funny story that mixes reality and fantasy seamlessly. Mad Dog may really have shaman powers--or maybe he is just disturbed. Dorothy from the nursing home swears by her ruby sneakers--and calls Mad Dog 'the wizard.' Dorothy may know what happened to the body, and even where the baby came from, but does she also know more. Because there are deep secrets in this rural Kansas towns--secrets that go back to nazi Germany and before. I suspect that Hayes had a good time writing this book. I certainly had a good time reading it.