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Running from her past, she finds a killer, a protector, and her faith.

DEATH AT THE BLACK BULL
By: Frank Hayes

A Sheriff Virgil Dalton Mystery
Berkley
October 2014
On Sale: October 7, 2014
Featuring: Virgil Dalton; Buddy Hinton; Jimmy
320 pages
ISBN: 0425274292
EAN: 9780425274293
Kindle: B00INIXQ66
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Hayward is a sleepy Southwestern town full of cattle, trucks, and tumbleweeds. Virgil Dalton’s been the sheriff for over a dozen years and has lived there all his life. It’s a place where everybody pretty much knows everybodyβ€” but they don’t know each others secrets…

Buddy Hinton is just a good ole boy. So when he disappears after a night drinking at the Black Bull, his friends just figure he went down to Mexico to find himself a girlfriend and eventually will come back. But this case quickly becomes a homicide after the sheriff discovers the missing man floating in one of his stock tanks.

For a man who wasn’t known to have enemies, Buddy clearly upset someone. Figuring out who that was will require Virgil and his deputy, Jimmy, to retrace Buddy’s last stepsβ€”and to remain a step ahead of a murderer who may have no qualms about killing again …

Sheriff Virgil Dalton

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