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The Falling Tree

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017-02-12
主題	Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth
ISBN	15426798939781542679893
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=CgFOAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The Falling Tree is about Hector Raleigh, a combat veteran and former military policeman, who's asked to help his former teacher, Samantha Grady, deal with people who want to ruin her family name. "My family is under siege..." she tells Heck. Butterflake Wilson is his godfather, who gets him to help her. He's also Heck's best friend because Heck's father has just died--and Heck is an only child--or so he thinks. While he's pining away about the loss of his girlfriend and his left hand (which he lost in the war), a city-wide homecoming is approaching. Samantha and her deceased husband, Dr. James Grady, are being presented with awards. They are also honoring the doctor with a statue in a plush hospital garden. He was a popular physician whose claim to fame were the humanitarian trips he made to Africa. On one such trip, Grady was gifted with a diamond from a village chief, which (Samantha says) has gone missing, and she wants Heck to help her find it. Meanwhile, a street boss named Frank Lawless is harassing Samantha's granddaughter, Jessica, and threatening to embarrass the Gradys during their finest hour. Samantha wants Heck to get Jessica away from the 'skunk', and avoid a scandal. And there are two brothers, Saul and Harman Pettigrew, operating the funeral home Heck's father once worked for. One is an unfulfilled artist; the other a failed boxer. They team up with the street boss to become pains in Samantha's side. And through it all, someone is slashing people, stabbing others, and using chloroform as their knockout chemical of choice. Heck has his one-hand full, and he gets knocked around a lot too. Maybe he should have stayed on his medication, or at least put himself up for adoption, as he needs a family tree of his own to catch him, because he's forever falling down. Being unmarried and without children is not all it's cracked up to be, but at least Heck's got his godfather watching his back...