Crying Blood
Praise for Crying Blood. Powerful as a blue norther sweeping across the Creek Nation. gripping. -Carolyn HartShaw Tucker, his brother James, and their sons go hunting in 1915. Instead of a quail, Shaw"s dog, Buttercup, flushes an old boot. containing the bones of a foot. Buttercup then leads the men to a shallow grave and a skeleton with a bullet hole in the skull. That night, a pair of moccasin-clad legs brushes by Shaw"s tent flap. He realizes that someone is following him. He captures a young Creek Indian boy called Crying Blood, and ties the boy up in the barn, but while he is left alone, someone thrusts a spear through Crying Blood"s heart. The local law is on the killer"s trail, but Shaw Tucker has a hunch. Donis Casey is a former teacher, academic librarian, and entrepreneur. She lives in Arizona with her husband, poet Donald Koozer. www. doniscasey.com