Forty Dead Men by
Donis Casey
Alafair Tucker is a farm wife and mother in early 20th
century rural Oklahoma, and this tenth book in the series takes place just
after World War i. Her eldest son, George Washington Tucker, known to his
family as Gee Dub, is home from the war in France, but Alafair senses that
there is something different about him. He spends a lot of time alone, roaming
the property on his horse.
One day he comes across a young woman on the road,
tired and lost, but unwilling to trust in a stranger.
His mother discovers that the young woman is Holly Johnson,
from Maine, whose husband was in the war, but hasn’t contacted her since. She
discovered he was from a nearby town in Oklahoma, and is looking for his relatives to find out
her status. Is he alive or is she a widow?
This is one of my favorite mystery series. It includes a lot
of the hardships of the times, but Alafair is a hardworking and practical
woman, and the family pulls through each crisis.
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