Death on the High Lonesome
by Frank Hayes

The author of Death at the Black Bull returns to the
Southwestern town of Haywood where the onset of winter
ushers in a new mystery for Sheriff Virgil Dalton...

Virgil knows that his sleepy hometown is starting to reflect
the times, in good ways and bad. It still comes as a shock
when his deputy is almost killed by the body of a woman
falling from the highway overpass onto his car. A woman who
had been fleeing for her life...

Then longtime resident
Velma Thompson is found dead on her porch�her husband
missing. To search for the man, Virgil saddles up and heads
to the High Lonesome, the rugged mountains above their
ranch. And on a wind-swept mesa, he�ll find the first
clues that point to a killer whose body count has only just
begun...

Other Books by Frank Hayes

Death at the Black Bull
A Sheriff Virgil Dalton Mystery #1

Frank Hayes' Bio

Frank Hayes is a high school teacher who has started a new career as a novelist. He lives and writes in New York’s mid-Hudson River valley. Death at the Black Bull is his first book.