Death Where the Bad Rocks Live (Spirit Road Mystery)

Product Description FBI agent Manny Tanno thought he had left his tribe and the Pine Ridge Reservation behind him years ago. But now with a cold case unearthed in the hot plains sun, he knows that the past never really goes away. In Badlands National Park, there is a desolate area the Lakota refer to as the Stronghold. General Custer called it hell on earth. During World War II, the Army Air Corps used it as a bombing range. At the end of the war, many unexploded ordnances were swallowed up in its sweltering sands. But that's not all that's buried there... Sixty-five years after the war, the Sioux tribe has contracted an ordnance removal company to defuse any remaining ammunition in the Stronghold. When the company finds a human arm near a live bomb, Tanno and the Tribal police are called to investigate. As the body is exhumed, two more are discovered. The remains are close together, but the murders were decades apart-and the story behind them is about to blow up... Review Praise for Wendelboe's Spirit Road Mysteries: "Wendelboe has attained master's status as a crafter of fine fiction. Finely drawn, fascinating characters, a feel for the land, and some of the sharpest dialog in crime fiction..."-Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear, New York Times bestselling authors"Lakota FBI agent Manny Tanno is among the most compelling sleuths you're likely to meet."-Margaret Coel, New York Times bestselling author"With Lakota FBI agent Manny Tanno, Wendelboe has introduced a powerful new character to Western crime fiction."-Craig Johnson, New York Times bestselling author About the Author C. M. Wendelboe entered the law enforcement profession when he was discharged from the Marines as the Vietnam war was winding down. In the 1970s, his career included assisting federal and tribal law enforcement agencies embroiled in conflicts with American Indian Movement activists in South Dakota. He moved to Gillette, Wyoming, and found his niche, where he remained a sheriff's deputy for more than twenty-five years. During his thirty-eight-year career in law enforcement he had served successful stints as police chief, policy adviser, and other supervisory roles for several agencies. Yet he always has felt most proud of working the street. He was a patrol supervisor when he retired to pursue his true vocation as a fiction writer. Wendelboe is a prolific author of murder mysteries with a Western flair, as well as traditional Westerns. He writes the Spirit Road Mysteries, the Bitter Wind Mystery series, the Nelson Lane Frontier Mysteries, and the Tucker Ashley Western Adventure series.