Then There Was Murder

by Donovan Harrison


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 10/19/2005

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 252
ISBN : 9781420868913

About the Book

Many county sheriffs serve all of their lives and never have to investigate a murder, but not Billy Harshburger. He finds that he has to investigate the murder of a former deputy, Bob Stewart, now turned bartender and informant, and he has to do it his first term in office.Sheriff Billy Harshburger quickly tracks down an eyewitness to the murder. She not only saw Bob Stewart killed, but she knows the killer, Jay Talbot. Billy leads his deputies out to apprehend Jay Talbot, but all they end up with is his brain-fried, nymphomaniac girlfriend whose needs are basic and she express those needs in basic language, and a wounded deputy.Then the hunt is on. Jay Talbot calls the sheriffs office and he wants his girlfriend released. He threatens them with kidnapping a child from a Roger Mills County school unless she is released.Now, not only is Sheriff Billy Harshburger short one wounded deputy, but he must guard the schools as well. Enter the FBI. The FBI asks Billy Harshburger to take Jay Talbot alive if at all possible. They suspect a conspiracy. Bob Stewart is not the only informant that has been killed with the same gun.In spite of their best efforts, a child is kidnapped. Jay calls with an ultimatum, release his girlfriend in three days or the child dies.Then There Was Murder is a novel, which will keep you on the edge of your seat and keep you reading until you read the last word.


About the Author

Donovan Harrison grew up in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. He remembers the days when the roads, which are now paved, were dirt and red gravel. While Sheriff Billy Harshburger, Jay Talbot, and other characters of the novel Then There Was Murder, are fictitious, the geography is real. The towns of Reydon, Crawford, Durham, Hammon, and Cheyenne still exist today in some form or other. Because of the lack of enrollment, Strong City, Durham and Crawford have lost their schools.

While Donovan Harrison was teaching these past thirty-eight years, he was making plans for when he retired. After two years of retirement, he had done most everything he had planned to do. Then one day he sat down in front of his computer and began to write. Three years and nine novels later that is where you will find him today. "I always know where he''s at," his wife of forty-seven years, Mildred, claims.

His subject matter and his writing style vary. If he is writing about Oklahoma, he uses words commonly heard in Oklahoma. If he is writing about a man of God, then he uses the appropriate language. If he is writing a story about Alaska, or a terrorist attack on the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he fit''s the style to his story.

If you read a novel by Donovan Harrison there is only one thing you can be assured of. The novel will be fast paced, excellent dialogue, and interesting characters. You can be assured of one other thing, you will have a hard time putting it down.