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This exceptional first mystery combines humor and menace in Contrary, West VirginiaWhen a colleague dies on assignment, Federal Department of Transportation inspector Owen Allison is assigned to finish the job: investigating a scare that centers on the bus system in a small coal-mining town. The wisecracking townspeople are a welcome change from the bureaucrats back in Washington -- until the local gadfly is killed on a back road, and Owen becomes a suspect and a target in a place where smiles can hide deadly secrets.
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When a colleague dies on assignment, Federal Department of Transportation Inspector Owen Allison is assigned to finish the job, investigating a scam that centres on the bus system in a small coal-mining town. But when a local is killed on a back road, Owen becomes a suspect and a target.
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John Billheimer, a native of West Virginia, lives in Portola Valley, California. This is his first novel.
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- PublisherSt Martin's Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0312185650
- ISBN 13 9780312185657
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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