Hornswoggled

The Old Buzzard Had It Coming

By: Donis Casey & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No

Alafair Tucker is a strong woman and the core of her family’s life on a farm in Oklahoma where backbreaking work and the daily logistics of caring for her husband and their nine children, and of being a good neighbor, requires determination and a clear head. She’s also a woman of strong opinions, and it is her opinion that her neighbor, Harley... Read more »

Hornswoggled

By: Donis Casey & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No

It’s the spring of 1913, and love is in bloom for Alice Tucker. Alice’s new beau, Walter Kelley, is handsome and wealthy. Everyone in Boynton, Oklahoma likes him, except Alice’s mother, Alafair. She sees that Walter has a weakness for the ladies—and they for him. Moreover, Walter’s late wife Louise was murdered and the murderer has not been... Read more »

The Drop Edge of Yonder

By: Donis Casey & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

One August evening in 1914, a bushwhacker ends a pleasant outing by blowing a hole in Bill McBride, kidnapping and ravaging Bill’s fiancée, and wounding Alafair Tucker’s daughter, Mary. All Mary knows is that the crime had something to do with the Fourth of July.

Or is there more? Trauma has locked away Mary’s memory of the event, but the answer... Read more »

The Sky Took Him

By: Donis Casey & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No

It’s a sad duty that brings Alafair Tucker and her two daughters to Enid, Oklahoma, in the fall of 1915. Her sister Ruth Anne’s husband, Lester, is not long for this world, and the family is gathering to send him to his reward. But her niece’s irresponsible husband, Kenneth, has disappeared at a most inconvenient time. When it comes to light... Read more »

Crying Blood

By: Donis Casey & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No

In the autumn of 1915, Shaw Tucker, his brother, James, and their sons, go on a hunting trip to the derelict farm his stepfather had bought years before.

Instead of a quail, Shaw’s dog, Buttercup, retrieves an old boot with the bones of a foot inside. Her discovery leads the men to a shallow grave and a skeleton with a bullet hole in the... Read more »

The Wrong Hill to Die On

By: Donis Casey & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No

The year 1916 was not shaping up to be a good one for Alafair Tucker, and finding Bernie Arruda dead in a ditch didn’t help matters. 

Alafair had not wanted to go to Arizona in the first place. But her ten-year-old daughter Blanche was suffering from a stubborn ailment of the lungs, and her best chance for a cure was dry desert air. So Alafair... Read more »

Hell with the Lid Blown Off

By: Donis Casey & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Pam Ward & Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

Some secrets can comeback from the grave.

In the summer of 1916, a big twister brings destruction tothe land around Boynton, Oklahoma. Alafair Tucker’s family and neighbors arenot spared the ruin and grief spread by the storm. But no one is going to mournfor Jubal Beldon, who made it his business to know the ugly secrets of everyonein town. It... Read more »