{"id":742,"date":"2016-04-17T04:22:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T04:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brightworkspress.com\/?post_type=books&#038;p=742"},"modified":"2024-03-21T17:00:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T17:00:30","slug":"spider-silk","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/brightworkspress.com\/book\/spider-silk\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider Silk"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Spider Silk &#8211; First Book in the Sheriff Bud Blair Mystery Series<\/h2>\n<p>A suspicious death leads to a manhunt and the capture of the self-confessed killer. But when Sheriff Henry &#8220;Bud&#8221; Blair reads the autopsy report, he begins to suspect that someone other than his prisoner is the actual killer.<\/p>\n<p>Set in Oregon&#8217;s High Desert country, <em>Spider Silk<\/em> introduces readers to a cast of characters unique to eastern Oregon and takes them on a fast-paced adventure.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spider Silk<\/em> Was a Global\u00a0eBook\u00a0Award Nominee!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/buzi2Gybghs?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Reviews for Spider Silk<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>Good plot. Clear, clean writing. Interesting characters. It&#8217;s a relief to find someone who can tell (and write!) a good story in a straightforward, uncomplicated way. Almost like you&#8217;re sitting around a camp fire listening to the guide spin a yarn. I just wish he&#8217;d spun the story out the whole nine yards and not dribbled the end of it into an epilogue.<\/p>\n<p>Collins knows the territory and makes good use of his experiences. Before the reader is done they&#8217;ll have read about a murder, cattle resulting and embezzlement. All in all, it makes me want to buy the author&#8217;s other two books and to hope for more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Collins is a natural storyteller who has obviously put in the hard hours of rewriting needed to make reading him an easy pleasure. He&#8217;s created a character, Sheriff Bud Blair, who is real and familiar enough to live just down the street, but at the same time principled and heroic enough to admire from afar. It&#8217;s worth your time to read this well-spun yarn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>This book is the first of a series, and not to mention a great start to a great character story. It was hard for me to put it down once I started reading it. I love how the author used Southern Oregon as the setting for this thriller. Being from that area, I can really picture the scenes he has the characters working in. Excellent writing!!! I loved this book!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>This book draws you in from the very beginning. This book blends the beautiful Oregon high desert with modern day criminal activities. It is a page turner from beginning to end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>What a great book for mystery, action and a little romance to. A real page turner, The characters feel very real, the good and the bad.<\/p>\n<p>The story move&#8217;s quickly and is multi dimensional, a lot of story lines at one time it keeps you guessing and turning the pages. Great read!, You&#8217;ll also want to read Rod&#8217;s book <em>Stone Fly<\/em> and I am also looking forward to getting his book <em>Bloodstone<\/em>. They all stand alone but is best to read them in order, <em>Spider Silk<\/em>, <em>Stone Fly<\/em> then <em>Bloodstone<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Almost forgot to say that all the places in his book are real, out in the beautiful high desert of Central Oregon.\u00a0I have read best sellers that were not this good!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Henry came through the door, he said, \u201cReporting, ma\u2019am.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cBud and I are going to lunch. I just put out an APB on William Casey, but I think it would be a good idea to contact the La Pine, Burns, Alturas, Klamath Falls and Winnemucca Police Departments and let them know that Casey is someplace within about three hours of Lakeview. If I\u2019m a bit late, can you cover for me?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYes ma\u2019am,\u201d Henry Barnes slid into the chair at the console, picked up the phone and started punching numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Bud and Nancy got a booth toward the back of the Indian Village Restaurant. Nancy chose it for privacy and because she knew Bud liked to sit where he could watch the door.<br \/>\n\u201cIt has nothing to do with being a policeman,\u201d he once told her. \u201cIt has to do with reading too many western novels as a kid. The heroes never turned their backs to the door.\u201d<br \/>\nNancy laughed at that. \u201cBud, you don\u2019t even carry a gun most of the time.\u201d<br \/>\nHe grinned, the creases around his eyes becoming more pronounced. \u201cYeah, but I\u2019d still like to know when to duck.\u201d<br \/>\nBud ordered the 8eight-ounce sirloin, medium-well, fries, veggie beef soup, and coffee with cream. He never ate restaurant salad. \u201cToo much chance of getting salmonella,\u201d he told Nancy.<br \/>\nNancy just ordered hot tea.<br \/>\nBud thought Nancy was just drop-dead gorgeous. She had the light shading of the Yakimas, short black hair with auburn highlights, and deep green eyes, a genetic gift from her grandfather, George O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":743,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","book-authors":[37],"book-series":[38],"book-tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightworkspress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightworkspress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightworkspress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightworkspress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightworkspress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightworkspress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book-authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightworkspress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-authors?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"book-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightworkspress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-series?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"book-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightworkspress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book-tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}