[Sheriff Dan Rhodes 03] • Cursed to Death

In tiny Blacklin County, Texas, a curse is nothing more than a four-letter

word hollered in a barroom or muttered in the heat. So Sheriff Dan Rhodes is

more curious than concerned when he dutifully responds to a complaint of

witchcraft.

When Dr. Samuel Martin, the local dentist — and unpopular landlord — claims

he's been hexed by a tenant, Rhodes does his best to smooth things out between

the distressed D.D.S. and the would-be witch. But in two shakes of a black

cat's tail, the good doctor disappears... and his wife turns up bludgeoned to

death.

For Rhodes, it means there's a bad moon rising over Blacklin County. And now

he's got to do the voodoo he does best — asking pointed questions and

extracting the painful truth from some tight-lipped suspects who also bite...