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The Branson Beauty por Claire Booth
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The Branson Beauty (edición 2020)

por Claire Booth (Autor)

Series: Sheriff Hank Worth (1)

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"The Branson Beauty, an old showboat, has crashed in the waters of an Ozark mountain lake just outside the popular tourist destination of Branson, Missouri. More than one hundred people are trapped aboard. Hank Worth is still settling into his new role as county sheriff, and when he responds to the emergency call, he knows he's in for a long winter's day of helping elderly people into rafts and bringing them ashore. He anticipates a lot of anxiety, many arguments, and extra costs for emergency equipment that will stretch the county's already thin budget to the breaking point. But those are the least of his worries after he discovers high school track star Mandy Bryson's body locked inside the Captain's private dining room"--… (más)
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Título:The Branson Beauty
Autores:Claire Booth (Autor)
Información:(2020), 321 pages
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Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.
  fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |
I learned about this author from one of the Readers' Digest compressed books. I shall follow her.
This book introduces Sheriff Hank. He's good at what he does in law enforcement but he's a flawed person when it comes to relationships.
The mystery is well done and we don't really know whodunit until the end. But, as in her other book, the ending is rushed. Still, I'd feel safe if Hank was my Sheriff. ( )
  DeaconBernie | Jun 15, 2020 |
I was very taken by the premise--a tourist boat running aground on the lake near Branson, MO. New in town, recently appointed county sheriff (not elected, which many point out!) Hank Worth and his team get to work emptying the boat of passengers, many of them seniors. When an undecidedly senior, former high school track star Mandy Bryson is found dead on the second story of the boat, it becomes quite the crime scene. Hank's wife Maggie is an ER doc, the move enables them to utilize her newly widowed father, Dunc, as child care for this couple that work long and non-traditional hours. I really liked the characters and setting and look forward to the next couple that are already out. ( )
  ethel55 | Aug 8, 2019 |
The Branson Beauty is a paddle wheel boat that takes a certain route around the lake under the captainship of Albert Eberhardt. He’s been on the route for almost 20 years and knows this lake in the Ozarks just outside of Branson, Missouri like the proverbial back of his hand. Inexplicably, with approximately 120 passengers on board and many of them elderly, he has managed to run the classic showboat aground on the rock outcropping in the lake.

Getting the folks on the boat safely off on this cold windy day is going to strain local resources to the limit. This is going to be the first real test for new Sheriff Hank Worth. He has to coordinate a rescue operation and control a number of volatile factors including the representative of the company who is far more concerned about bad publicity than the safety of the passengers and crew.

Things become immeasurably more complicated with the discovery of a body onboard. In a variation of a classic locked room mystery, eighteen year old Mandy Bryson is found dead inside the captain’s private dining room. There is no question from the start that it was murder. Not only is Captain Albert Eberhardt unable to answer questions about how and why the boat ran a ground, no one seems to know why Mandy was on board or who killed her. Sheriff Hank Worth is an outsider and folks are not about to start telling secrets.

The Branson Beauty is the first in what hopefully will be a long running series by Claire Booth. A complex multi-faceted mystery, a host of secondary characters with their own stories to tell, and a richness of setting and details make this a very good read. It reminded this reviewer quite a bit of the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series by Bill Crider as well as the Sheriff Samuel Craddock series by Terry Shames. The same down home folksy feel with family, small town secrets and gossip, and strong mysteries.

If it isn’t clear already, The Branson Beauty by Claire Booth is very much recommended.

The Branson Beauty
Claire Booth
http://www.clairebooth.com
Minotaur Books (St. Martins Publishing Group)
http://www.minotaurbooks.com
July 2016
ISBN# 978-1-250-08438-5
Hardback (eBook format available)
321 Pages
$25.99

Material supplied by the good folks of the Plano Public Library System.

Kevin R. Tipple ©2016 ( )
  kevinrtipple | Sep 12, 2016 |
I won this in a GOODREADS giveaway. ( )
  tenamouse67 | Jan 6, 2018 |
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"The Branson Beauty, an old showboat, has crashed in the waters of an Ozark mountain lake just outside the popular tourist destination of Branson, Missouri. More than one hundred people are trapped aboard. Hank Worth is still settling into his new role as county sheriff, and when he responds to the emergency call, he knows he's in for a long winter's day of helping elderly people into rafts and bringing them ashore. He anticipates a lot of anxiety, many arguments, and extra costs for emergency equipment that will stretch the county's already thin budget to the breaking point. But those are the least of his worries after he discovers high school track star Mandy Bryson's body locked inside the Captain's private dining room"--

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