Product Description

When the call comes in that Mike Wilson, the unlikable owner of the fancy West Branch Lodge, has gone missing, Sheriff Bo Tully is delighted. He'll have to stay at the lodge and investigate in luxury! But when an avalanche traps him there for the foreseeable future, along with his retired sheriff father, a motley group of vacationers, and a naughty old flame, life starts to get complicated. The missing persons case turns out to be a murder case, Tully discovers the avalanche was no accident of nature, and suddenly everyone starts to look like a suspect -- even the murder victim! It's up to Tully to figure it all out in this comic romp through the wilds of Blight County, Idaho, from bestselling author Patrick McManus.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40100 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-25
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

From Publishers Weekly
An engaging romp that recalls the best work of Bill DeAndrea, the second Bo Tully whodunit (after 2006's The Blight Way) from humor columnist McManus sends the Blight County, Idaho, sheriff into the mountains after local woman Blanche Wilson reports her husband, Mike, missing from the upscale wilderness lodge the couple run. Tully heads into the field to investigate with his father (and predecessor as local lawman), a trip almost cut fatally short by an avalanche. Suspicious of the timing of that apparently natural event, Tully soon finds the corpse of Mike Wilson's business partner and a whopping motive for Blanche to have done away with them both: a multimillion-dollar insurance policy. Crime solving takes a back seat to the banter between Tully and his father ("Pap"), as well as the numerous attractive women they encounter along the way, but the solution is a logical if unsurprising one. (Mar.)
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From Booklist
Blight County, Idaho, sheriff Bo Tully, his dad, and friend Dave Perkins head to West Branch Lodge to check out a missing-person report. Mike Wilson, a co-owner of the business, stormed out of the lodge after a fight with his wife, Blanche. Tully and his dad, Pap, the lovable but corrupt former Blight County sheriff, narrowly miss being killed by an avalanche on their way to the lodge. When Mike turns up dead, Tully has a murder investigation on his hands, but he is stuck at the lodge until the road is cleared. In town, Mike's business partner is also found dead. The partners had purchased key-man insurance, and Blanche is the beneficiary--leaving her the chief suspect. But how did she get to town with the road blocked? Quirky characters and plenty of wit enliven this folksy mystery from the author of several collections of outdoor humor. Sue O'Brien
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Review
"In Avalanche, McManus offers up a pleasurable read. In Bo Tully, he gives us a man to watch."-- The Oregonian

Customer Reviews

McManus
The second in the series and better than the first. Pat only gets better with time and this is an enjoyable one. Recommended.

Avalanche
I thoroughly enjoy Patrick McManus' literature. I appreciated the opportunity to add this to my library.

Literary Pool
Mr. McManus has done it again. He must be a master at the study of people being people. This creation Avalanche leaves the reader with his mind running in all directions but is so interesting one finds themselves suspecting solutions. I have a short story primer Mr. Pat wrote and he talked about writing humor was like shooting pool the more banks you hit the better the effect. I have tried to apply this to the Two books of short stories that I have now in print. "SO YOU GOT TO GET RIGHT BACK ON ????" and "SO WHAT WAS I THINKING ????" and in the book I will soon be sending to the printer "SO I FLEW WITH THE WIND ????". I can only dream of having the same skills Mr. McManus has, he is a real inspiration.