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    Rude Awakening

    By Susan Rogers Cooper

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    The tenth Milt Kovak mystery from this best-selling author . . . - Strange things are happening in Prophesy County. First, Deputy Dalton Pettigrew disappears on a mysterious date in Tulsa. His sister goes to rescue him, only to disappear herself. She'd left her middle child, Eli, in the care of Jean, the sheriff's wife, but now he's missing too. Who is the mysterious Dr. Emil Hawthorne, and why is he out to get Jean? Can Milt Kovak find Eli before it's too late?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSevern House Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2011
    ISBN9781780100319
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    Susan Rogers Cooper

    Susan Rogers Cooper is half-Texan, half-Yankee, and now lives with her family in a small town in central Texas. She is the author of the ‘E.J. Pugh’ series and the ‘Milt Kovak’ series, amongst other books.

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    • 3/5
      I've been reading the Sheriff Milt Kovak mysteries for years, so I was happy to find this new book on the library shelf. In it, a man awakens after eight years in a coma with his memory intact and one thing on his mind: vengeance on Milt's wife Jean. Emil Hawthorne is not a nice man and will stop at nothing to make Jean suffer. Meanwhile, one of Milt's deputies, Dalton Pettigrew, goes missing -- which makes his domineering mother become nuttier than she already is. When Dalton's sister Mary Ellen responds to his plea for help, she goes missing, too. Then there's the kidnapping.Although I liked the story, I was disappointed to find so many grammatical errors in this book. Normally, such errors don't make their way into my consciousness unless they're blatant -- and these were. I realize that some authors use more colloquial language in their narratives -- hoping to give a unique voice to their first-person narrators. If that was the author's intention, for me it fell flat. Using "me" in a subject just grates on me, as in "Jean and me headed for the sheriff's department." Ugh!!!01/11/2010