Muskrat Hill

By Easy Jackson

2020

First Published

4.32

Average Rating

301

Number of Pages

9H08M

Audio Length

"Stranded in a tiny Texas hotel, Giselle Thibodeaux sees Kit Robertson, a fading country music star from her hometown. Overwhelmed with nostalgia, and hoping Kit might have answers to the secrets surrounding her parents, Giselle pretends to be a reporter seeking a story about his father, Pope Robertson, a one-time famous Texas Ranger. Although he doesn't recognize her, Kit is drawn to Giselle and opens up about the murders that shook the small western town they grew up in. Kit tells the story of playing near the river, when he and his best friend, Whitey, stumble upon the body of a young woman. As they race back to town, they meet Asa Jenkins, the town's half-Comanche marshal. Asa begs Kit's father, a former ranger, to help him solve the murder. Resentful that his father is so old, Kit nonetheless assists Pope and Asa as they struggle to uncover a killer who strikes again and again. Driven by fear, the townspeople lash out at every person they see as different. Pope must stand alone in defending Asa against a hysterical crowd gone mad. Kit and Whitey look death in the face, striving to overcome the hardships life has dealt them. And in the end, Giselle find what her heart has been looking for." “Texas writer Easy Jackson is a natural storyteller!” Stuart Rosebrook, Editor, True West magazine KIRKUS "... [S]urprisingly intricate murder plot... heartfelt evocation of the Texas town."

Avg Rating

4.32

Number of Ratings

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Author

Easy Jackson

Author · 3 books

“I’ve done almost every kind of menial job imaginable that was legal. In my fifties, I decided to go to college. I attended Sam Houston State University in East Texas and got my diploma from Angelo State University in West Texas. With a degree in journalism and history, I sallied forth into the publishing world only to find that talent without persistence is worthless. Most of my inspiration comes from my hometown, considered one of the wildest of the Wild West Texas towns in the late 1800s. News of shootouts between outlaws and vigilante groups reached newspapers as far away as St. Louis. listening to those stories had a profound influence on me. It is my goal to use them to entertain readers as much as they enthralled me.” Easy Jackson aka V.J. Rose