Dark Places

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2016 - Will Rogers Medallion Award Honorable Mention in Western Fiction At the tail end of 1967, the Parker family once again finds it impossible to hide from a world spinning out of control. Fourteen-year-old Top still can't fit in with their Center Springs, Texas, community or forget recent, vicious crimes. His near-twin cousin Pepper, desper

Reavis Z. Wortham is the critically acclaimed author of the Red River Mysteries set in rural Northeast Texas in the 1960s. As a boy, he hunted and fished the river bottoms near Chicota, the inspiration for the fictional location. He is also the author of a thriller series featuring Texas Ranger Sonny Hawke. He teaches writing at a wide variety of venues including local libraries and writers' conferences. Wortham has been a newspaper columnist and magazine writer since 1988, and has been the Humor Editor for Texas Fish and Game Magazine for the past twenty-two years. He and his wife, Shana, live in Northeast Texas. Check out his website at www.reaviszwortham.com

"Replete with period details and a strong sense of place, this winning fifth series entry is as much a coming-of-age story as crime fiction. This series is comparable to Rick Riordan's Tres Navarre or Joe Lansdale's Hap Collins and Leonard Pine books." - Library Journal "Readers will cheer for and ache with the good folks, and secondary characters hold their own....The novel's short chapters fit both the fast pace and the deftly spare actions and details...the rhythm of Wortham's writing, transporting us back in time, soon takes hold and is well worth the reader's efforts. " - Historical Novel Society "Once again, Wortham supplies something for everyone?especially fans of summer movies who love chase sequences so much that they don't care who's chasing whom." - Kirkus Reviews "A terrific suspense thriller that transports grateful fans to 1967 small-town Texas and Route 66. The Parker brood has their hands filled between corralling the runaways, and capturing a vehicular homicide killer and the businessmen murderers. Aptly named Dark Places, this is a superb period piece. " - Midwest Book Review