Murder by Deception

In the tradition of Tony Hillerman and Thomas Perry, this is iBooks second John Lloyd Branson mystery, following "Murder By Impulse in December, 2003. The guy with the knife sticking out of his chest, stark naked except for socks, is none other than the much-hated Charlton Price-Leigh lll, the Dept. of Energy Agent who came to the Texas Panhandle to win approval for a potentially life-threatening nuclear waste dump. The police have only one suspect: the owner of the wheat field. Like everyone else, he wanted the guy dead. But he didn't kill him. Luckily, his lawyer is John Lloyd Branson, who begins to unravel a devious conspiracy with consequences that ring across the whole state of Texas..and beyond.