Merle Drown: 2 books

What would drive easy-going, likable Jim Hutchins to pick up a twelve-gauge and head for his sworn enemy? The IRS threatening to garnish his mechanic’s wages? His kids providing the police department full-time employment? His grief-sodden wife making money by dancing naked for his brother-in-law?...

Plowing up a snake means to go looking for trouble, and trouble aplenty comes to picture postcard pretty Enoch, New Hampshire, where citizens believe in taking care of their own, even if that means killing someone who just needed killing. Based on a still unsolved murder in 1950s Northern New England,...