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Cold Skies: A DreadfulWater Mystery Kindle Edition
From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of Sufferance and Indians on Vacation
When a body is found in an airport rental car, Thumps DreadfulWater learns that the deceased was developing a revolutionary technology. The technology is new, but could it be so valuable that someone would kill for it?
Thumps DreadfulWater has finally found some peace and quiet. His past as a California cop now far behind him, he’s living out his retirement as a fine-arts photographer in the small town of Chinook. His health isn’t great, and he could use a new stove, but as long as he’s got his cat and a halfway decent plate of eggs, life is good.
All of that changes when a body turns up on the eve of a major water conference and the understaffed sheriff’s department turns to Thumps for help. Thumps wants none of it, but even he is intrigued when he learns that the deceased was developing a new technology that could revolutionize water and oil drilling . . . and that could also lose some very powerful people a lot of money. As strangers begin to pour into Chinook for the conference, Thumps finds himself sinking deeper and deeper into a conflict between secretive players who will not hesitate to kill to get what they want.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
- Publication dateMay 22 2018
- File size962 KB
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“The characters are really clever. . . . The dialogue is crisp and just begs to head to the screen.” -- The Globe and Mail
“Let’s hope that DreadfulWater shows up again and again.” -- Books in Canada
“Even armchair sleuths who can see the solution from a mile away will appreciate GoodWeather’s unerring knack for converting social, racial, and economic conflict into blissful farce.” -- Kirkus Reviews
“Wry wit, clever writing, amusing characters. . . . [Readers] are going to love sharing this adventure with Thumps DreadfulWater.” -- Tony Hillerman --This text refers to the paperback edition.
About the Author
THOMAS KING is an award-winning writer and photographer. His critically acclaimed, bestselling books include Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; One Good Story, That One; Truth and Bright Water; A Short History of Indians in Canada; The Back of the Turtle (winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction); The Inconvenient Indian (winner of the RBC Taylor Prize); Indians on Vacation; Sufferance;and the poetry collection 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin. A Companion of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, Thomas King lives in Guelph, Ontario.
--This text refers to the paperback edition.From the Back Cover
FROM THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE INCONVENIENT INDIAN, A NEW DREADFULWATER MYSTERY THAT WILL KEEP YOU GUESSING UNTIL THE VERY END
Cherokee ex-cop Thumps DreadfulWater is feeling lethargic. He’s tired of work, he’s tired of Chinook and the people in it, and most of all, he’s tired of their questions: Why is he always so tired? Is he depressed? Does he have diabetes? A thyroid condition? Cancer?
It would be great, Thumps thinks, if they would all mind their own business. Especially Sheriff Duke Hockney, who asks Thumps to fill in as sheriff while Hockney is away.
When a body is found in an airport rental car, Thumps soon has questions of his own and more business he doesn’t want. Before long, two bodies have gone cold in Chinook, and the case is just starting to heat up.
Thumps finds out there’s a lot of buzz around the water conference being held in town. As it turns out, both of the deceased worked for Orion Technologies, a company developing a revolutionary method for extracting fresh water from hidden reservoirs. The technology is new, but could it be so valuable that someone would kill for it? It’s up to Thumps DreadfulWater to find out.
--This text refers to the paperback edition.Product details
- ASIN : B071LDPYYT
- Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers (May 22 2018)
- Language : English
- File size : 962 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 458 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1443455148
- Best Sellers Rank: #93,920 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #324 in Native Canadian Literature
- #406 in Native American Literature (Books)
- #2,420 in Police Procedurals (Kindle Store)
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About the author

Thomas King is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter, and photographer. His many books include the novels Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; Truth and Bright Water; two short story collections, One Good Story, That One (Minnesota, 2013) and A Short History of Indians in Canada (Minnesota, 2013); nonfiction, The Truth About Stories (Minnesota, 2005); and the children's books A Coyote Columbus Story, Coyote Sings to the Moon, Coyote's New Suit, and A Coyote Solstice Tale. King edited the literary anthology All My Relations and wrote and starred in the popular CBC radio series, The Dead Dog Café. He is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award (2003), and was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2004. He has taught Native literature and history and creative writing at the University of Lethbridge, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Guelph and is now retired and lives in Guelph, Ontario.
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