Vengeance Is Mine

A Red River Mystery, Book 4

By: Reavis Z. Wortham

Narrated by: Traber Burns

In October of 1967, the Summer of Love is history, rock and roll is dark and revolutionary, and people in the small east Texas community of Center Springs simply want to live their lives as quietly as possible. But a handsome darkness in the form of Las Vegas gangster Anthony Agrioli has left the business to hide out in their tiny backwater settlement with his blond bombshell girlfriend.

Two years earlier, Agrioli met newlyweds Cody and Norma Faye Parker in a Vegas casino and heard their enthusiastic descriptions of the perfect place to settle down and raise a family. At least it was perfect, before their peaceful world found itself in the crosshairs of a coming confrontation.

Back in Center Springs, thirteen-year-old Top Parker has what his grandmother, Miss Becky, calls a poisoned gift: His dreams, though random and disconnected, always seem to come true. This time Top dreams he's a wagon hub with spokes converging from all directions. To him, the spokes symbolize that something is coming. He doesn't know their quiet community will soon be a combat zone when the gangsters arrive. But they're after something else, not Agrioli…yet.

A sheriff crooked as a dog's hind leg, an unsolved murder in the river bottoms, counterfeit money, and a bank robbery all wrapped in a country Shakespearean comedy once again bring together Constables Ned and Cody Parker, Deputy John Washington, Judge O. C. Rains, and the rest of Wortham's real and sometimes wacky cast of characters.

©2014 Reavis Z. Wortham (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Back in the day

I love the setting of these stories. Being a resident in Lamar county, I easily visualize the story. Takes me back to my childhood of party lines, lighting cigarettes with the car’s cigarette lighter, a very different way of life. Good to see real characters, the Christian Grandma, good and corrupt police, telling it like it is.

Super go book

Really a good book. so far I have liked all the books by this author.

i love this whole series!

i can't wait to hear the next story_book...i love the nostalgia and adventure combined !

Reavis does it again

Reavis is a great story teller and Traber Burns really brings them to life. A top shelf combination.

Peace, Love and Murder 1967 Texas

With the backdrop of the Summer of Love of 1967 and a teenaged Pepper thinking she wants to move to California, where she will escape the blood and guts of little Center Springs, Texas 🤣, this fourth in the series is a winner. With cousins, Pepper and Top still a duo to contend with, older but not much wiser, a hit man and his girlfriend, Anthony Agrioli and Samantha Best have moved to the small town, adding a lot more danger to all their lives. Wanting to leave the gangster life and Vegas behind forever, the two try to settle down into Center Springs. But instead of a calmer life, they bring the heat to themselves and the small circle of friends that they are beginning to meet. Constables Cody and Ned, and Deputy John are in for a fight, and once again a crooked sheriff seems to thwart them at every turn. I love that we get a little glimpse of a new piece to the puzzle as each book comes to a close. Excellent installment in the series!