FOUNDING SHERIFF
by Edward Massey
Apprenticed as a cooper in England before he emigrated, sent to the Summit Mission to be the cooper, and once there was asked to be the constable. When the Territory was created, it created a county, and he became the sheriff. The sheriff investigates a girl murdered in her bed and tracks her husband who escaped in Grandma’s buggy.
Capturing him in the high mountains in Bonanza Flat, the founding sheriff decides not to kill the son of a bitch and sets in motion a long and broken path to a tradition of justice where none existed before in Summit County, Utah Territory.
Capture comes swift. Conviction takes longer. Execution drags on for years.
Life in a growing frontier town that starts with six people and no buildings either demands frontier justice or unfolds its apparent willingness to assist the murderer’s effort to avoid his fate.
Indian troubles, vigilantes’ murderous justice, and a railroad hell-on-wheels town threaten the founding sheriff ’s promise to the murdered girl’s mother.
EDWARD MASSEY BIO:
Mountains and pioneer heritage formed Edward. They gave him the willingness to set out on his own and try. Good people and great institutions honed, inspired, and molded him. Together these influences bear total responsibility for his progress and none for his setbacks.
He brings progress and setbacks to a writing career started late in life. With Founding Sheriff he has four published novels, Telluride Promise, Every Soul Is Free, and Fugitive Sheriff, (all available on AMAZON) and a handful of short stories.
His novels have won a few awards. He wants them to win readers. Consulting and speaking support his writing. Anne and Edward live in Connecticut. The next novel is in progress.
Please visit edwardmasseybooks.com.
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Release Date: 8/19/2020 | Price: $25.95| Five Star Publishing
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