{"product_id":"funeral-train-a-dust-bowl-mystery-paperback","title":"Funeral Train: A Dust Bowl Mystery - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaurie Loewenstein\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*Winner of a Will Rogers Silver Medallion Award for Western Mystery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e *A finalist for the 2023 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award for Best Historical\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"For Temple Jennings, the small-town Oklahoma sheriff who returns in Laurie Loewenstein's engaging new Dust Bowl-era mystery, \u003cem\u003eFuneral Train, \u003c\/em\u003e day-to-day matters have become challenging . . . Reading \u003cem\u003eFuneral Train\u003c\/em\u003e feels like being catapulted back in time to experience the 1930s at an almost unbearably visceral level.\" \u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Loewenstein handles the investigatory details well enough, but the book's richer rewards are its finely rendered portraits of small-town life under trying circumstances. She creates a vivid cast of gossips and cranks, loners and busy bodies. Some are lovable, some are not. All are connected to the secrets that lie just beneath the surface of the town's dusty streets.\" \u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003eWashington Post, \u003c\/em\u003e one of \"Five New Thrillers to Kick Off Your Fall Reading\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Already suffering the privations of the 1930s Dust Bowl, an Oklahoma town is further devastated when a passenger train derails--flooding its hospital with the dead and maimed. Among the seriously wounded is Etha, wife of Sheriff Temple Jennings. Overwhelmed by worry for her, the sheriff must regain his footing to investigate the derailment, which rapidly develops into a case of sabotage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The following night, a local recluse is murdered. Temple has a hunch that this death is connected to the train wreck. But as he dissects the victim's life with help from the recuperating and resourceful Etha, he discovers a tangle of records that make a number of townsfolk suspects in the murder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Temple's investigations take place against the backdrop of the Great Depression--where bootlegging, petty extortion, courage, and bravado play out in equal measure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaurie Loewenstein\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eUnmentionables\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDeath of a Rainmaker\u003c\/i\u003e, the first in the Dust Bowl Mystery series and a finalist for a 2019 Oklahoma Book Award. She teaches at Wilkes University's Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing and is a fifth-generation Midwesterner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.2 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766308143392,"sku":"9781636140520","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8fd8ce6b9b2ab283f0098ed04a287fcc.webp?v=1780289857","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/funeral-train-a-dust-bowl-mystery-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}