Prairie Gothic : a Mad Dog & Englishman Mystery

Publishers Weekly: Switched identities, an infant who appears mysteriously, a madwoman locked away from the outside world-these and other gothic elements in Hayes's wry, briskly paced second novel (after 2000's Mad Dog and Englishman) would make Mrs. Radcliffe feel right at home. Sheriff English of Buffalo Springs, Kans., shows up at the Sunshine Towers Retirement […]

Mad Dog & Englishman

Publishers Weekly: Just 15 pages into this excellent sophomore effort, we've met a divorced, smalltown Kansas sheriff named English, his 12-year-old daughter Heather and his half-brother Mad Dog–and we care about them all. We've also witnessed a gruesome murder. Mad Dog finds what's left of the scalped and dismembered Rev. Peter Simms, stuffed into the […]

Plains Crazy : a Mad Dog & Englishman Mystery

From Booklist: *Starred Review* The wacky denizens of Benteen County, Kansas (Mad Dog & Englishman, 2000, and Prairie Gothic, 2003), are back with enough action to keep readers on the edge of their seats. Just as the residents of the sleepy county are beginning to wonder when something will happen, a crew from PBS pulls […]