{"product_id":"butcher-pen-road-9781982689278","title":"Butcher Pen Road","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn Oklahoma's Big Rock Prairie, a deaf boy finds a body in Pennington Creek. Johnston County Deputy Hannah Bond and Chickasaw Lighthorse Police Sergeant Bill Maytubby find a crime scene where nothing seems to fit--from the dead angler's oversize waders to the kind of fish in his creel. They scour the creekside brush, then hit the road for Texas in a widening search for the killer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the Big Rock, a towering bearded man is building a limestone replica of Roman Jerusalem for a Christian passion play. His cronies, who are in league with an interstate fraud ring, want the boy to disappear now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlying an ancient rented Cessna, Maytubby takes fire from a suspect he is tailing, while Bond combs river trails for traces of the killer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Maytubby and Bond try to protect the deaf boy and his mother from the crime ring, an improbable ally materializes from the prairie oak thickets, wielding a monstrous shotgun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLackey, Kris:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKris Lackey\u003c\/b\u003e, author of the \u003ci\u003eUSA Today \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eNail's Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e, has published stories in the \u003ci\u003eMissouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWisconsin Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCimarron Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and other magazines. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50511224111378,"sku":"9781982689278","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7e0e9bc8-5bbb-4364-b3be-dc136a5ba07d.jpg?v=1730944852","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/butcher-pen-road-9781982689278","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}