Stringbean Hooper Westerns — Fay Risner

Fay Risner has written a western mystery with colorful characters that will keep you wanting more. This is the first book in her series of Stringbean Hooper Westerns. Sheriff Stringbean Hooper's job description of his job is relaxing with his feet on his desk while he watches Sully Town, Montana from his office window. That all changes when the town doctor's wife disappears. Hooper finds himself in the middle of a family feud with his boss cattle baron Mac Sullivan and Doc Strummer. Shot from ambush, Hooper is forced to hide out at the wash woman's house on the edge of town while she removes the bullet. He can't get fearful women witnesses to talk to him. The midwife/Indian shaman gives him the creeps when she said she felt the dark wind howl over Mary Strummer. Hooper's only backups are a nervous pig farmer part time deputy and a gun toting woman rancher set on marrying him. He finds himself fighting for his life and his bachelorhood while he solves the myterious disappearance of Mary Strummer.