Guilt Trip A Blanco County Mystery

Turkey season is in progress, former juvenile delinquent Lucas Burnett's house just exploded, and a Ford Explorer is floating downstream after a gullywasher. It's another ordinary day in Blanco County, Texas... GUILT TRIP Game warden John Marlin hopes that Burnett, a likeable kid, isn't found dead in his burned down house. But Marlin doesn't have the same warm fuzzy feelings about rancher Vance Scofield, who is missing after his SUV is found in the river. Scofield, a skirt-chasing SOB, is a "high fencer, " a rancher who pens trophy bucks behind deer-proof fences which lazy hunters can bag for a fee. To Marlin it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Worse, a range war of sorts has erupted with the low-fence ranchers, and things are turning downright ugly. Of course Marlin still doesn't know about the X-rated pictures a blackmailer took of the state senator in cahoots with the high fencers...the scheme being hatched by two bumbling poachers...or the stolen red Corvette which may be the key to everything. What has caught his attention is the sheriff's department's pretty new deputy... "As funny as it is suspenseful...well-paced, smartly plotted, full of memorable Hill Country denizens and crackling dialogue, this is diverting fun." --"PublishersWeekly" " " "This series about Blanco County, Texas, game warden John Marlin keeps getting odder and funnier. Rehder has jumped to a new level, and "Guilt Trip" just might grab a chunk of the outsize Hiaasen crowd." --"Booklist"Rehder, Ben is the author of 'Guilt Trip A Blanco County Mystery', published 2006 under ISBN 9780312940942 and ISBN 0312940947.