Donis Casey
Casey, Donis
AZ
Welcome, Dear Reader, to a historical series that features good food, warmth, humor, a dollop of moral ambiguity, a touch of the other world, and a big, loving family with fierce mama who will do anything to protect her own, even if it entails solving a murder.
DONIS CASEY was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A third generation Oklahoman, she and her siblings grew up among their aunts and uncles, cousins, grandparents and great-grandparents on farms and in small towns, where they learned the love of family and independent spirit that characterizes the population of that pioneering state. Donis graduated from the University of Tulsa with a degree in English, and earned a Master’s degree in Library Science from Oklahoma University. After teaching school for a short time, she enjoyed a career as an academic librarian, working for many years at the University of Oklahoma and at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
Donis left academia in 1988 to start a Scottish import gift shop in downtown Tempe. After more than a decade as an entrepreneur, she decided to devote herself full-time to writing. "The Old Buzzard Had It Coming", is the first book in her Alafair Tucker Mystery series. For the past twenty years, Donis has lived in Tempe, AZ, with her husband.
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The Sky Took Him Author: Donis Casey Published: December 8, 2008 by Poisoned Pen Press Series Name: An Alafair Tucker Mystery Category: Historical Mystery Main Character: Alafair tucker, Martha tucker, Grace Tucker, Ruth Ann Yeager, Olivia Crawford, Lester Yeager, Pee Wee Nickolls Alafair Tucker came to Enid, Oklahoma, to comfort her sister,Ruth Ann, whose husband Lester is dying. When her niece's irresponsible husband, kenneth, goes missing, the town is quick to blame it on his shady dealings with ruthless business man Buck Collins. But Alafair's intuition tells her otherwise. Alafair and her oldest daughter, martha, work against the odds to discover the truth - even if it means airing out some family secrets. Click for more info. |
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The Drop Edge of Yonder Author: Donis Casey Published: October 1, 2007 by Poisoned Pen Press Series Name: Alafair Tucker Mysteries Category: Historical mystery Main Character: Alafair Tucker, Shaw Tucker, Mary Tucker, Bill McBride, Laura Ross Who killed Uncle Bill? Alafair Tucker is desperate to find out. One August evening in 1914, a bushwhacker ended a pleasant outing by blowing a hole in Bill McBride, kidnapping and ravaging Bill's fiancee, and wounding Alafair's daughter Mary. All Mary knows is that the crime had something to do with the Fourth of July. Or is there more? The answer seems to be working its way through the fog of Mary's shock and grief and floating to the surface of her consciousness. Several malicious acts suggest that Bill's killer is still around and attempting to cover his tracks. Click for more info. |
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Hornswoggled Author: Donis Casey Published: September 4, 2006 by Poisoned Pen Press Series Name: Alafair Tucker Mysteries Category: Mystery - historical Main Character: Alafair Tucker, Shaw Tucker, Alice Tucker, Walter Kelley It's the spring of 1913, and love is in bloom for Alice Tucker. Alice's new beau, Walter Kelley, is handsome, popular, and wealthy. Everyone in Boynton, Oklahoma, likes him. Everyone but Alice's mother, Alafair. She sees that Walter has a weakness for the ladies -- and they for him. Moreover, Walter's late wife Lousie had been stabbed in the heart and her body disposed of in Cane Creek only a few months earlier. The murderer has not been caught. Click for more info. |
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