Book description
Attending the Yaqui tribe's Easter Ceremonies in Tucson should be a
dream come true for a Cheyenne-wannabe-shaman like Mad Dog. But
immediately after his midnight arrival, he is accused of being a witch.
Then moments later a policeman is murdered, and Mad Dog is blamed.
Suddenly Mad Dog and his wolf-hybrid, Hailey, are targets of a city-wide
manhunt with shoot-first overtones. Mad Dog's niece, Heather English, a
part-time deputy for her father in Kansas, comes to Tucson to try to
arrange a peaceful surrender or clear her uncle by finding the real
killer. Back in Kansas, someone has blown Mad Dog's house off the face
of the Great Plains. Sheriff English, investigating that crime, learns
Mad Dog has been playing a massive online computer game: War of
Worldcraft. There, a vampire wizard has made a habit of tormenting him.
Mad Dog claims the creature has reached out of the game to come after
him in the real world. The sheriff isn't convinced...until he begins
receiving threats from a vampire wizard on his office computer. The
ghost in the machine promises death for Mad Dog and explicit and
horrible tortures for Heather. And all before dawn.... Cheyenne
would-be shaman Mad Dog arrives in Tucson, AZ, to attend the Yaqui
tribe's Easter ceremonies but is accused of witchcraft and the stabbing
death of a policeman. But Mad Dog knows who the real killer is, having
spotted him in an online computer game. Meanwhile back in Kansas, Mad
Dog's house is blown up and his brother, Sheriff English, investigates.
Readers of this series (Broken Heartland; Prairie Gothic ) know that
when the English family is involved, nothing is what it appears to be
and the outcome is never what anyone expects. Full of outrageous humor
and a plot that will leave even the most jaded readers demanding more,
Hayes's latest gives Janet Evanovich a run for the wackiest characters
and most bizarre plots in crime fiction. J. M. Hayes was born and
raised on the flat earth of central Kansas where Prairie Gothic takes
place. He graduated from Wichita State University and did another three
years of post graduate work at the University of Arizona. He shares a
home in Tucson, AZ with his wife, several computers, four thousand or so
books, and a small herd of German Shepherds.
