Avalanche
A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery
1
He stood at the window studiously watching the large fluffy snowflakes fill up his mother's backyard. Rose, seating herself at the dining room table behind him, said, "Honey, I wish you'd do something besides stare at the snow. Maybe you need a hobby."
"Staring at snow is my hobby," Blight County Sheriff Bo Tully replied. He was forty-two years old, with thick brown hair and a thick brown mustache, both beginning to show signs of gray. "In January anyway."
Rose set a flat carton on the table. "Come help me eat this pie. It's from Crabbs. They make the best pie. Oh, not their coconut cream or their banana cream. They're all right, but they don't put enough coconut in their coconut cream. Maybe coconut is too expensive. They put something in their banana cream I don't like. It's probably to keep the bananas from turning brown."
Tully sighed. "You plan to eat the whole pie right now?"
"Goodness no, not the whole pie. I offered you a piece, didn't I?"
"I guess," he said. He walked over and sat down across the table from her. Her h ... read full excerpt from: Avalanche: A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery ebook
