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Boom Town

By: Ben Rehder
Narrated by: Johnny Peppers
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Lonnie Blair was sitting comfortably in a deer blind on a crisp January afternoon when his life came to a sudden, violent end. Was it an accident, or had Blair’s long history of womanizing finally caught up to him?

Blanco County Game Warden John Marlin joins the investigation and quickly identifies a prime suspect - a neighboring ranch foreman with several questionable incidents in his past. But is the answer really that simple?

Meanwhile, local good ol’ boys Red O’Brien and Billy Don Craddock also have a mystery to solve. How did the founder of a new wellness retreat convince Red’s girlfriend to participate in a risqué photoshoot - and what should Red do about it?

Boom Town is the explosively funny new installment in Ben Rehder’s Blanco County series.

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I did enjoy this book but it had so many moving parts, I wondered if they were ever going to get any of them solved. We sort of had three cases on the go, so the story did jump around as each character told or played his part. Red and Billy Don are looking into a man who got Red's girlfriend to pose for some photos, game warden John Marlin is looking into a shooting incident that might or might not be connected to a murder, a shooting, a booming and a fire. At the same time George is looking to teach man that was a bullied his son a lesson. Of course things are always more complicated than that and things eventually comes together in an explosive ending. I like the characters, I don't always understand why they do things but I guess if they didn't it wouldn't been much of a story or as entertaining.

A new wellness retreat has opened up and has Mandy modelling for there advertising campaign. Red isn't so happy with the results and set out to restore her honour. The more he learns about the man behind the centre the more he asks what else is he capable of? At the same time, when a deer hide blows up killer the hunter inside, John Marlin is called in to investigate. His best friend had a run in with the prime suspect and it quickly becomes apparent that he was lucky to come out of it alive. Can Marlin find the proof they need to put him away? George has his own run in with the suspect but rather than back down he decided to take the fight to the bully. Is standing up to the bully the right thing to do or is he stand up against a mad man?
I like the narrator. He helps sell the story with all the interesting voices he gives the characters and makes them so easy to picture because of it.

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