Books

	Broken Heartland Author: J.M. Hayes Published: November 15, 2007 by Poisoned Pen Press Series Name: A Mad Dog & Englishman Mystery Category: Mystery Main Character: Mad Dog, Englishman Sleepy Benteen County, Kansas, turns frantic on election day. Sheriff English, better known as Englishman, faces his toughest reelection challenge yet. The radical religious right is out to unseat him, their candidate an Iraq war hero. Englishman's only available deputy isn't winning him votes. That very morning, while pursuing a vehicle, the hurried deputy rams a school bus carrying the Benteen County teen choir. Click for more info.

	Plains Crazy Author: J.M. Hayes Published: October 1, 2004 by Poisoned Pen Press Series Name: A Mad Dog & Englishman Mystery Category: Mystery Main Character: Mad Dog, Englishman Nothing ever happens in Benteen County, Kansas. Then, on a perfect spring morning, a member of the reality TV program filming in a local pasture is found dead with a Cheyenne arrow sticking out of his back. The natural suspect is Sheriff English's half-brother, Mad Dog, the county oddball whose Amerind heritage has made him a born-again Cheyenne. Truly, murder is a bad way to start the day. Explosive action follows. Notes left for authorities hint at a terrorist assault on the heartland. Click for more info.

	Prairie Gothic Author: J.M. Hayes Published: January 15, 2003 by Poisoned Pen Press Series Name: A Mad Dog & Englishman Mystery Category: Mystery As a howling blizzard blows down upon the sparsely-populated Benteen County seat of Buffalo Springs, Kansas, Sheriff English confronts both a doll and a dead baby--their bodies switched, but by whom? And why? The elderly coroner disclaims any knowledge, but seems uneasy when the swastika on the tiny corpse is revealed. Click for more info.

	Mad Dog & Englishman Author: J.M. Hayes Published: November 1, 2000 by Poisoned Pen Press Series Name: A Mad Dog & Englishman Mystery Category: Mystery Main Character: Mad Dog, Englishman "Summer in Benteen County, Kansas, is a season possessed of all the gentle subtlety of an act of war. Winter, of course, is no better, but remembrance of its frosts and blizzards and winds that begin to suck away your life before you walk a dozen steps has grown faint by the early hours of a Sunday morning in late June." Click for more info.

	The Grey Pilgrim Author: J.M. Hayes Published: November 1, 2000 by Poisoned Pen Press Series Name: A Mad Dog & Englishman Mystery Category: Suspense Main Character: J.D. Fitzpatrick, Jujul, Mary Spencer, Jesus Gonzales A strikingly original plot blends unknown bits of real history with imagined incidents to create an unusual thriller. Its base is the last American Indian uprising in Arizona ,occuring in October, 1940. At its core lay a struggle for civil rights. Click for more info.