02303cam a2200361 4500 944179565 TxAuBib 20230822120000.0 230724t20232021||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9798885789806 hardcover alk. paper TxAuBib Offutt, Chris, 1958- The killing hills [Large Type Book] / Chris Offutt. Large print ed. [Farmington Hills, Mich] : Thorndike Press/Gale, 2023. ©2021. 267 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. Thorndike Press large print high octane Mick Hardin novels ; 1 "Mick Hardin, a combat veteran now working as an Army CID agent, is home on a leave that is almost done. His wife is about to give birth, but they aren't getting along. His sister, newly risen to sheriff, has just landed her first murder case, and local politicians are pushing for city police or the FBI to take the case. Are they convinced she can't handle it, or is there something else at work? She calls on Mick who, with his homicide investigation experience and familiarity with the terrain, is well-suited to staying under the radar. As he delves into the investigation, he dodges his commanding officer's increasingly urgent calls while attempting to head off further murders. And he needs to talk to his wife. The Killing Hills is a novel of betrayal--sexual, personal, within and between the clans that populate the hollers--and the way it so often shades into violence. Chris Offutt has delivered a dark, witty, and absolutely compelling novel of murder and honor, with an investigator-hero unlike any in fiction"--Provided by the publisher. 20230822. Veterans Fiction. Government investigators Fiction. Absence without leave Fiction. Sheriffs Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Marital conflict Fiction. Kentucky Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Thorndike Press large print high octane. Mick Hardin novels ; 1. RV8