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1964 - Life on the North Dakota farm hasn't always been easy for Marjorie Trumaine. She has begun working as a professional indexer to help with the bills - which have only gotten worse since the accident that left her husband, Hank, blind and paralyzed. When her nearest neighbors are murdered in their beds, though, Marjorie suddenly has to deal with new and terrifying problems. Sheriff Hilo Jenkins brings her a strange amulet, found clutched in the hand of her murdered neighbor, and asks her to quietly find out what it is. Marjorie uses all the skills she has developed as an indexer to research the amulet and look into the murders, but as she closes in on the killer, and people around her continue to die, she realizes that the murderer is also closing in on her.
About the Author
Larry D. Sweazy (pronounced: Swayzee) is the author of sixteen novels, including The Return of the Wolf, The Lost are the Last to Die, See Also Proof, Where I Can See You, See Also Deception, A Thousand Falling Crows, See Also Murder, Escape from Hangtown, Vengeance at Sundown, The Devil's Bones, and six books in the Josiah Wolfe, Texas Rangers series, including the first book, The Rattlesnake Season. He won the WWA (Western Writers of America) Spur award for Best Short Fiction in 2005 and for Best Paperback Original in 2013, and the 2011 and 2012 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction for the Josiah Wolfe series. He was nominated for a Short Mystery Fiction Society Derringer award in 2007, and was a finalist in the Best Books of Indiana literary competition in 2010, and won in 2011 for The Scorpion Trail. He won he inaugural Elmer Kelton Book Award in 2013. And most recently, Larry won the Women Writing the West Willa Award in 2019 for See Also Proof (Marjorie Trumaine #3) , and is a 2020 WF (Western Fictioneers) Peacemaker Award finalist. Larry has published over eighty nonfiction articles and short stories, which have appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine; The Adventure of the Missing Detective: And 25 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories!; Boys' Life; Hardboiled; Amazon Shorts, and several other publications and anthologies. He is also a freelance indexer and has written back-of-the-book indexes for over one thousand books, which also served as inspiration for the Marjorie Trumaine Mystery series. Larry lives in Indiana with his wife, Rose, and is hard at work on his next novel. More information can be found at www.larrydsweazy.com.
