Review: Still Another Winner
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 3, 2012
It was with a bit of glee when I started reading BULLETS FOR A BALLOT this morning. It was still there when I finished just now.Cash Laramie is sent into Bear Pines where a mayoral election is in full swing. Mrs. Tolliver, the widow of a candidate, declared her intention to run after her husband was murdered. Now she's receiving death threats herself. He's to keep things on the up and up, which proves no easy task he finds out quickly. The town is divided between her and the incumbent, a man who has a lot of powerful friends.Plus Cash finds long buried memories coming to the front. both pleasant and otherwise when he meets the new candidate, right in the middle of her son's and her near murder. He soon sends for help.An exciting tale that grabbed me fast and didn't let go until I finished.Edward A. Grainger(better known as David Cranmer) has created a fine pair of characters in Cash and Gideon. The fact that he has let other writers play, as the old saying goes, in his sandbox, speaks well. This time it's Nik Morton, another writer who writes in several genres and never fails to deliver, These western tales combine old west with more modern sensibilities and can be enjoyed by anyone who likes a good story, whatever the genre.Recommended highly.