The Body in the Smokehouse

About the Book

Adrian and her scrappy cousin Snider have endured a love-hate relationship since childhood. When his body is found smoked to a crisp in his smokehouse, she speculates that he may have been involved in shading dealings gone awry. Could they have concerned Mobeetie, the land-obsessed manager of the ranch she and Snider have inherited? Or Madam, the mysterious gypsy woman Snider gave refuge to? Or even Ernest, Adrian’s newly acquired banker-husband, or his spiteful son Bobby? Could the mentally challenged hired girl Elsie hold the clue to what happened to Snider? Adrian aims to find out.

About the Author

Guida Jackson’s other fiction includes Passing Through, Death by Chicken, Hitting It Big, and Cybergasm. She has worked as a newspaper editor, magazine editor, book editor, lecturer in English (University of Houston), and Creative Writing (Montgomery College). She has a BA in Journalism, MA in the Humanities specializing in Latin American Literature, and PhD in Comparative Literature specializing in Third World Literature, particularly West African. She is founder of Touchstone Literary Journal (1976) and Panther Creek Press (1999), and author of 18 fiction and non-fiction books, published by Simon & Schuster, Oxford University Press, Barnes & Noble Books, and others. Three of her books, Women Who Ruled, Encyclopedia of Traditional Epics, and Women Rulers Throughout the Ages, have been on Library Journal’s Best Reference List. She lives with Jack, Hunter, and Lili Hume in Houston, Texas.