Burrows: A Red River Mystery

Lyndon B. Johnson is President, Beatlemania is in overdrive and gasoline costs 30 cents a gallonwhen Ned Parker retires as constable in Center Springs, Texas.�But his plan to live a quiet life as a cotton farmer is torpedoed.�A phone call leads Ned to a body in the Red River and into the urgent investigation headed by his nephew, the newly elected constable Cody Parker.�Together they work to head off a multi-state killing spree that sets northeast Texas on fire.

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As the weeks pass, Ned�� grandchildren, ten-year-old Top and his tomboy cousin Pepper, struggle with personal issues resulting from their traumatic experiences at the Rock Hole only months before.�They now find themselves in the middle of a nightmare for which no one can prepare.�

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Cody and Deputy John Washington, the law south of the tracks, follow a lead from their small community to the long abandoned Cotton Exchange warehouse in Chisum.�Stunned, they find the Exchange packed full of the town�� cast off garbage and riddled with booby-trapped passageways and dark burrows.�Despite Ned�� warnings, Cody enters the building and finds himself relying on his recent military experiences to save both himself and Big John.�Unfortunately, the trail doesn�� end there and the killing spree continues...

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