Black Like Blood

First Edtion, first printing. 2005 Edtion by Russ Hall. Isbn 1-59414-354-4. An Esbeth Walters Mystery. Esbeth Walters, a retired high school math teacher in her youthful seventies, tells herself that she's never to old to learn something new the hard way when she takes a job as a part time dispatcher at a sheriff's department- just a week after the mayor of a small town in the county has been murdered. New to the area, she soon learns that somewhere under the crust of her newly adopted rural Texas County where is a history of feuds, corruption, betrayal and violence. Wild talk of a loss diamond mine helps to peel back the scab and she begins to wonder if even the Texas Ranger Tillis Mccrory I isn't as tainted as the rest of them. He is overly friendly to an attractive deputy Gala and has sat at the card table of gambler Morgan Lane. Esbeth tells him," I think there is something about this one you needed, something that rattles you to your deeps". Inside excellent dustcover minor wear.