Crow's Landing (35 page)
Authors: Brad Smith
“Yeah. You want to come along?”
Virgil thought for a brief moment and he nodded. “Maybe I'll get him some neatsfoot oil.”
“He would like that.” She opened the door to go. “Where are you going now?”
“Home. I got animals to tend to.” He looked at her. “Then I have to find out where Hoffman lived.”
“Why?”
“Apparently my boat is in his garage.”
Thanks to the usual suspects at Simon & Schuster Canada and at Scribner in the United States. To Jen Barclayâthank you for your early read and your enduring friendship.
And
gracias
to my agent, Victoria Skurnick. With a
k
.
© LORRAINE SOMMERFELD
BRAD SMITH
was born and raised in southern Ontario. He has worked as a farmer, signalman, insulator, truck driver, bartender, schoolteacher, maintenance mechanic, roofer, and carpenter. He lives in an eighty-year-old farmhouse near the north shore of Lake Erie.
Red Means Run,
the first novel in his Virgil Cain series, was named among the Year's Best Crime Novels by
Booklist
.
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Also by Brad Smith
Red Means Run
All Hat
Big Man Coming Down the Road
Busted Flush
One-Eyed Jacks
Rises a Moral Man
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