This is a first novel for Bobby Cole, and he deserves to be rated highly in our blog. His venue is Alabama-Mississippi, the deep woods. Jake Crosby is a good guy who may have grown a bit distant from his wife, but he’s crazy about his 9-year-old daughter Katy. She’s a tomboy who gets to go with her dad on a turkey hunting trip, great for father-daughter bonding, except when they encounter the sociopath, Johnny Lee Grover and his rough pals. This wasn’t supposed to be a solo trip, but Jake’s hunting buddy decided spending time with his new wife was a better option for the weekend than getting up early and hanging out in a shooting house in the wilderness with another guy and his little girl. Thrown into the mix of characters are high school lovers, Tanner Tillman and Elizabeth Beasley, who need to find a remote site to spend some romantic time together. You can see the collision of story lines. Cole also blends in a mix of great cop characters, some good guys and one you love to hate. Deputy R. C. Smithson is a comic side-kick to Sheriff Ollie Landrum, the way Barnie Fife was to Andy Griffith. There was as much action in the first third of this book as in most of the books that we read. It was a good and entertaining vacation book. It gets my recommendation.
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