Opening book details…
Can I read Bad Country : A Novel on EtoBox?
Bad Country : A Novel by McKenzie, C. B. is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Bad Country : A Novel about?
The newest winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize, a debut mystery set in the Southwest starring a former rodeo cowboy turned private investigator, told in a transfixingly original style. Rodeo Grace Garnet lives with his old dog in a remote corner of Arizona known to locals as El Hoyo. He doesn't get many visitors in The Hole, but a body found near his home has drawn police attention to his front door. The victim is not one of the many undocumented immigrants who risk their lives to cross the border in Rodeo's harsh and deadly "backyard," but a member of a major Southwestern Indian tribe, whose death is part of a mysterious rompecabeza—a classic crime puzzler—that includes multiple murders, cold-blooded betrayals, and low-down scheming, with Rodeo caught in the middle.Retired from the rodeo circuit and scraping by on piecework as a bounty hunter, warrant server, and divorce snoop, Rodeo doesn't have much choice but to say yes when offered an unusual case. An elderly Indian woman from his own Reservation has hired him to help discover who murdered her grandson, but she seems strangely uninterested in the results. Her attitude seems heartless, but as Rodeo pursues interrelated cases, he
Who reads Bad Country : A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- McKenzie, C. B.
- Publisher
- Macmillan Digital
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781466856004
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, True Crime, Mystery
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (823 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
More by McKenzie, C. B.
Browse all works by McKenzie, C. B.
Similar books
- Bad Blood — Dana Stabenow (2013)
- Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest : Bad Boys and Bad Girls in the Badlands — Glassman, Steve., O'sullivan, Maurice J. (2001)
- Plain Bad Heroines : a Novel — Recorded Books, Inc.; Danforth, Emily M (2020)
- Love and Country : A Novel — Adam Christina (2007)
- Country of the Bad Wolfes : a Novel — James Carlos Blake (2012)
- Bullet for a Bad Man : a Ralph Compton Novel — Compton, Ralph; Robbins, David (2010)