Emmett Hardy Crime Novel

From the author of the award-winning crime thriller, Where the Hurt Is."This top-notch suspense thriller will seize your attention, and you'll be enthralled by the characters and the author's witty and appealing style."Sublime Book ReviewThe residents of tiny Butcherville, Oklahoma love their God-given freedoms so much, they refuse to hire their own police force. When they need a cop, they just call Emmett Hardy, police chief of Burr, the closest neighboring town. Whether it's to break up a fight, dissuade an angry good ol' boy from hunting rabbits with an M-16, or eject an unruly patron from Butcherville's combination strip joint/bookstore, Emmett's always glad to oblige that is, until a local business owner's lust for money and power results in a deadly shootout and multiple kidnappings. Suddenly, Emmett's good intentions are fraught with dangerous consequences. Besieged by friend and foe alike, and sabotaged by a fondness for drink that's starting to affect his work, Emmett is the last man standing between a community of honest people trying to do their best with what little they have, and an evil that threatens not only their jobs and homes, but their very lives.

"Chris Kelsey hits another home-run with this fast-paced and enthralling mystery starring Emmett Hardy." -Sublime Book ReviewIt's the late 1970s, a time when Oklahomans learn first-hand the meaning of the term serial killer...Small-town police chief Emmett Hardy sets out with a simple goal-find the family of a young woman who died years earlier at the hands of one of his officers. But when a friend helping with the search is murdered, Emmett's task grows deadly. As he digs to find both the young woman's family and the killer of his friend, he uncovers a twisted family saga rife with incest, abuse, and political corruption-a legacy of generational sin with roots reaching deep into the prairie soil.Torn between pursuing justice and preserving his own hide, Hardy navigates a labyrinth of lies, a compromised legal system, and his own haunted conscience. What starts out as a simple goal leads to a reckoning with the past-his own, and his state's.Gritty, atmospheric, and laced with pitch-black humor, Somebody, Sometime is a slow-burn crime noir that peels back the layers of small-town culture to expose the rot beneath. For fans of Daniel Woodrell, Attica Locke, and James Lee Burke, this is Southern Gothic with a badge ... and a bottle of bourbon.