A novel by Thad McAfee
ISBN 9780981034485 (ISBN 10: 0981034489
) 310 pp. 2008, 1st Edition.
Drawing from a depth of knowledge and feelings, Thad McAfee masterfully
delivers first-rate storytelling in
Sulfur Creek. Twelve year-old Anna
Marie Cochran has lost her life on the railroad tracks at the Sulfur
Creek crossing in a small Midwestern town. Much as the little stream
meanders across the countryside, the lives of the mourners who have
gathered from afar twist and turn before a heinous crime is uncovered.
For twenty years Sonny Mac has avoided his past. This successful
corporate man has had no need or desire to return to his origins to
face those old ghosts. But now he is called upon to support a childhood
best friend and his grieving family. The local Sheriff, the Railroad
Police, and the Coroner are quick to deem the case an unfortunate
accident. But things just don't add up to Sonny Mac, and he manages to
drag his best buddy's younger sister, Emmy Lou Cochran, into this
amateur detective case that soon turns into a passionate love affair.
Unsettled by an incomplete accident report, Colonel Rupert Mason of
the Ohio State Police decides to pay a visit to this small community
and junior State Policewoman Rebecca Steen, the reporting officer who
arrived on scene soon after the incident. At a small social gathering,
Sonny Mac by chance meets Rupert Mason and expresses his unsettled
sentiments about Anna Marie's death to the Colonel, and from there on,
things seem to unravel for the complacent Sheriff and the unsavory
Railroad Police investigator, while sweet Emmy Lou helps to finally
exorcise Sonny Mac's old demons.
For those who enjoy a snappy reading Mystery Thriller filled with wisdom and wit, try
Sulfur Creek.
