The Comfort of Distance: A Sebastien Grey Novel

By Ryburn Dobbs

Deep in the forests of the Black Hills, human remains are being discovered - one bit at a time. Rumors of a rogue man-eating mountain lion are spreading through the county and panic is starting to swell. Sgt. Hank LeGris of the Custer County Sheriff's Office is feeling the pressure; he needs to find out who the dead are, and how they got that way. Hank suspects that the bodies are the result of a more sinister predator. But in order to solve the mystery, he will have reach back into his own dysfunctional family history and pull in the only person who can get to the bottom of these strange cases - his estranged and disordered brother, the brilliant forensic anthropologist Dr. Sebastien Grey.




When Sebastien arrives in the Black Hills, he takes his brother, and detective Tiffany Reese, on a whirlwind tour of forensic thinking and deductive reasoning, not only solving the mystery of the human remains, but the murder of a local thug as well. In the process, Sebastien himself is forever transformed by his own success and by the charm and kindness of the lovely Detective Reese: "One day I hope you give yourself permission to be different, Sebastien. You'll be happier."




The Comfort of Distance is equal parts forensic mystery, police procedure and character study, with dashes of comedy and romance thrown in. Readers will be cheering at the end and ready for more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1735250600
• ISBN13: 9781735250601
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Dandiprat Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Very Good

I feel as if this is a thinking person's mystery and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The story dragged a little at times, and there were some errors in police procedure; the "folksy" talk was a little off-putting at times, but all in all it kept me interested and reading. Some reviewers were put off by Sebastian's social anxiety and felt as if the author spent too much time exploring this, but it added to the story in my opinion. I loved learning so much about forensic anthropology. It really made the story interesting. I look forward to reading the next in the series.