Primary Target: An Owen Allison Mystery: 6 - Softcover

Billheimer, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932325573 ISBN 13: 9781932325577

Publisher: THE MYSTERY COMPANY, 2019

Synopsis

Ten years after California Governor Red Davison engineered the collapse of Owen Allison’s consulting firm, Owen crosses paths with the Davison family again. A win in the West Virginia primary is all Red’s son Jason needs to capture his party’s presidential nomination. Reporter Tom O’Day believes that votes are for sale. Sheriff Thad Reader enlists Owen’s help to keep his county clean, but Owen is sidetracked when one of the partners in his failed firm commits suicide and old records are stolen. As the Davison campaign is rocked by the disappearance of an aide, a bomb explodes in Owen’s home office. Is the bomber trying to destroy records of the past, or is Owen the primary target?

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Review

"All politics is local, and the greatest mysteries are of the human heart — two truths that come together to build an infinitely appealing world around consultant Owen Allison. Billheimer’s dry humor and rock-solid characters bring a quiet corner of America into the center of everything. More, please!" — Laurie R. King, New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes mysteries

"John 'By Gawd' Billheimer has done it again — with an encyclopedic knowledge of Appalachian history and characters ripped from today’s headlines, Primary Target is a taut mystery with a timely warning of the state of politics today." — Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire Mysteries, basis for the Netflix drama Longmire

About the Author

John Billheimer, a native West Virginian, lives in Portola Valley, California. He holds an engineering Ph.D. from Stanford and writes the "funny, sometimes touching," Owen Allison mystery series set in Appalachia's coalfields. The Drood Review voted his first book, The Contrary Blues, one of the ten best mysteries of 1998. Four subsequent novels, Highway Robbery, Dismal Mountain, Drybone Hollow and Stonewall Jackson's Elbow, explore a variety of Mountain State scams, scandals and frauds. Primary Target is the sixth book in the series. Billheimer has also written Field of Schemes and A Player to be Maimed Later, entries in a mystery series featuring sportswriter Lloyd Keaton, as well as Baseball and the Blame Game, a nonfiction look at scapegoating in the major leagues, and Hitchcock and the Censors, a look at all forms of movie censorship and how Alfred Hitchcock coped with them. www.johnbillheimer.com

About this edition

• Publisher: THE MYSTERY COMPANY
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1932325573
• ISBN 13: 9781932325577
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 346