sheriffs

A collection of twelve short mystery stories about Sherrif Walt Longmire.

Readers will meet sheriffs and deputies who risk their lives to save others. Dramatic, true stories tell how these skilled police responders stay calm, think quickly, and act fast to address serious situations. In addition, readers will go behind the scenes to see how they train for a wide variety of emergency rescues.

Clayton Burroughs' family history is full of outlaws, generations of moonshiners, drug-runners, meth-makers, and pot-growers, living virtually untouched by the law on Bull Mountain in North Georgia. To distance himself from his family, Clayton takes the job of sheriff in a neighboring county, which makes things awkward when a federal agent shows up with a plan to shut his family down, asking for his help.

Enduring the mistakes and tragedies that have shaped their lives in contemporary Appalachia, a sheriff on the brink of retirement and a haunted park ranger confront violent forces when an elderly local is accused of poisoning a trout stream.

"This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: they are allowed outside"--Back cover.

North Carolina deputy sheriff Miles Ryan, heartbroken over his wife's death in a hit-and-run accident two years earlier, considers love again when he meets his son's second-grade schoolteacher, Sarah--but he soon finds that his wife's death was anything but an accident and danger is not far away. Includes SAT and ACT comprehension questions and sample writing prompts.

Armed with secret knowledge, Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18 and her crew set out to rescue a world she hates but now understands better -- the world of the Silos with its rigid rules and terrible consequences for disobedience.

Chico Bustamante enjoys antagonizing Sheriff Cornwallis until he crosses path with the sheriff's giant chicken and decides to ride it.

"Sheriff Walt Longmire is sinking into high-plains winter discontent when his former boss, Lucian Conally, asks him to take on a mercy case in an adjacent county. Detective Gerald Holman is dead and Lucian wants to know what drove his old friend to take his own life. With the clock ticking on the birth of his first grandchild, Walt learns that the by-the-book detective might have suppressed evidence concerning three missing women, and Walt uncovers an incriminating secret so dark that it threatens to claim other lives even before the sheriff can serve justice--Wyoming style"--Provided by publisher.