MYSTERY

Vengeance Is Mine: A Red River Mystery

by Reavis Z. Wortham

Poisoned Pen. Jul. 2014. 336p. ISBN 9781464202582. $24.95; pap. ISBN 9781464202605. $14.95; ebk. ISBN 9781464202612. M

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Why Las Vegas gangsters would descend on rural Center Springs, TX, is beside the point. Both comic and violent tones color Wortham's fourth entry (after The Right Side of Wrong) in his country-noir series, which is doused with coming-of-age elements and set in the volatile late 1960s.

Reviewed by Teresa L. Jacobsen , Jul 01, 2014

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