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Donis Casey is the author of ten Alafair Tucker Mysteries- The Old Buzzard Had It Coming, Hornswoggled, The Drop Edge of Yonder, The Sky Took Him, Crying Blood, The Wrong Hill to Die On, Hell With the Lid Blown Off, All Men Fear Me, The Return of the Raven Mocker, and Forty Dead Men. This award-winning series, featuring the sleuthing mother of ten children, is set in Oklahoma during the booming 1910s. Donis has twice won the Arizona Book Award for her series, and been a finalist for the Willa Award and a seven-time finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award. Her first novel, The Old Buzzard Had It Coming, was named an Oklahoma Centennial Book in 2008. Donis is a former teacher, academic librarian, and entrepreneur. She lives in Tempe, Arizona.
2003 Oklahoma Writers Federation: Best Unpublished Novel (Mystery/Susp), 2007 Arizona Book Award: Best Mystery/Suspense Novel, 2005 Oklahoma Book Award Finalist, 2005 Benjamin Franklin Award Nominee, & 2006 Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma Finalist for The Old Buzzard Had it Coming 2008 Arizona Book Award: Best Mystery/Suspense Novel, & 2008 Oklahoma Book Award Finalist for Drop Edge of Yonder 2010 Oklahoma Book Award, & 2010 WILLA Award, Historical Fiction for Sky Took Him Alafair's sixth (The Sky Took Him, 2009, etc.) will appeal to history buffs and Hillerman aficionados. - Kirkus Review for Crying Blood Powerful as a blue norther sweeping across the Creek Nation, Crying Blood is a gripping entry in Donis Casey's superb Alafair Tucker series. Casey depicts family ties that uplift and support and family ties broken by anger in a poignant, lyrical, authentic novel of early day Oklahoma. --Carolyn Hart
