Hog Heaven

Hog Heaven

Edgar Award finalist Ben Rehderâ€™s Blanco County mysteries have made best-of-the-year lists in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and Field & Stream.

HOG HEAVEN: After a high-school football star dies in a late-night motorcycle collision with a wild pig, the boyâ€™s wealthy father comes up with a creative scheme to rid Blanco County of the feral pests: He tattoos the ear of one particular pig, then offers a $50,000 reward for anyone who shoots it. Game warden John Marlin is not pleasedâ€”chiefly because the bounty is likely to bring a wave of poachers and trespassers to the area. The tension rises even higher when the death of the local boy turns out to be more complicated than it originally appeared. Fans of Ben Rehderâ€™s earlier comic mysteries will be in heavenâ€”Hog Heaven.

REVIEWS FOR BEN REHDER'S NOVELS:

â€œMurderously funny.â€
â€”Chicago Tribune

â€œAnother of Rehderâ€™s relentlessly twisted tales. Outrageous fun.â€
â€”Kirkus Reviews

â€œWickedly funny.â€
â€”Dallas Morning News

â€œThe odd cast of characters and bizarre plots and subplots make for a rollicking good read.â€
â€”Houston Chronicle

â€œRehder has made the leap from writing skillful comic pleasantries to pulverizing satire.â€
â€” Austin American-Statesman

â€œRehder writes with an assured hand and a knowing tip of the wide-brimmed cowboy hat to the ways and wiles of the characters that people his distinctly Texan landscape.â€
â€”San Antonio Express-News

â€œ[An] increasingly popular (and increasingly enjoyable) series. With this novel, the Marlin series has completed the transition from light mystery to no-holds-barred madcap comedy crime fiction (Ã la Westlake or Hiaasen).â€ â€”Booklist

â€œRehder continues to improve with each book. [His] series will appeal to fans of Southwestern mysteries laced with a bit of humor.â€
â€”Library Journal

â€œThis series about Blanco County, Texas, game warden John Marlin keeps getting odder and funnierâ€¦But one thingâ€™s for sure: Rehder has jumped to a new level...just might grab a chunk of the outsize Hiaasen crowd.â€
â€”Booklist

â€œDown-home humor that is both intriguing and entertaining.â€
â€”Dallas Morning News

â€œRollicking good fun.â€
â€”San Antonio Express-News

â€œRehderâ€™s clever storytelling skills, his expert comic timing and flair for characters have made this series shine. Rehder doesnâ€™t just write niche mysteries, heâ€™s proving to be one of the genreâ€™s rising talents with his twisted tales.â€
â€”South Florida Sun-Sentinel

â€œThe writing here is confident and vigorous; the tone is quintessentially Texan and relentlessly wry. Thereâ€™s sure to be a long career for this happy, wacky series.â€
â€”Publishers Weekly

â€œBen Rehder writes about the Texas Hill Country with such insightful appreciation that heâ€™s come to own the territory, much the same way Carl Hiaasen owns South Florida.â€
â€”Austin Chronicle
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-01-10
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-01-10
Format	Kindle eBook

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