Snake Oil: A Patrick Flint Novel

For fans of C.J. Box, Craig Johnson, and Tony Hillerman — a blizzard-bound Wyoming mystery where a small-town doctor trying to save lives keeps nearly losing his own. Dr. Patrick Flint drives a rattling International Harvester Travelall through a blizzard to Fort Washakie Health Center on the Wind River Reservation, with his x-ray tech Wes and a frozen radiator hose. By the time he arrives, there's a newborn baby who needs delivering, a dead man named Big Mike Teton in the parking lot, and a tribal police officer who doesn't want Patrick asking questions about either one. Big Mike's wife Constance is Patrick's colleague. She's beautiful, she's recently widowed, and she does not behave like a grieving widow. The reservation's complex web of loyalties, jealousies, and a threatening note written in black marker suggest that Big Mike did not die of natural causes — and Patrick's missing urine sample confirms it. When someone sabotages Constance's brake line and shoots at Patrick with a shotgun, the BIA officer still calls it a prank. When Patrick ends up tied to a chair with a strychnine syringe coming at his neck, he stops wondering whether he's overreacting. Meanwhile, Susanne and the children drive through the storm to find him, finding only an intimate-looking newspaper photograph and a beautiful woman grabbing Patrick's hand. Back in Buffalo, Trish's boyfriend crisis unfolds with the same relentless drama as a potential murder investigation. Snake Oil is the second Patrick Flint novel, set in Buffalo and the Wind River Reservation of 1976 — drawn from author Pamela Fagan Hutchins's own Wyoming years and her family's real Reservation stories. The strychnine in this one is fictional. The cold is not. Complete series: 9 novels. He delivered a baby, found a dead man, and got poisoned — all in one Wyoming blizzard. His wife dumped ice water on his head. He deserved none of it. Complete series: 9 novels. Praise from readers: “A Bob Ross painting with Alfred Hitchcock hidden among the trees.” “Edge-of-your-seat nail biter.” “Unexpected twists!” “So beautifully descriptive… full of action, heart, and suspense.” “Absolutely unputdownable.” Buy Snake Oil today for a pulse-pounding Wyoming mystery you won’t be able to put down!
ASIN: 1950637913
VSKU: DBV.1950637913.A
Condition: Acceptable
Author/Artist:Hutchins, Pamela Fagan
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.