Butcherville - chris kelsey

From the author of the award-winning crime thriller, Where the Hurt Is.

This top-notch suspense thriller will seize your attention, and youll be enthralled by the characters and the authors witty and appealing style.

- Sublime Book Review The 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 its to break up a fight, dissuade an angry good ol boy from hunting rabbits with an M-16, or eject an unruly patron from Butchervilles combination strip joint/bookstore, Emmetts always glad to oblige .

that is, until a local business owners lust for money and power results in a deadly shootout and multiple kidnappings.

Suddenly, Emmetts good intentions are fraught with dangerous consequences.

Besieged by friend and foe alike, and sabotaged by a fondness for drink thats 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.