01593cam a2200289 i 4500 608424988 TxAuBib 20221102120000.0 201228t20202011||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250783394 paperback 1250783399 paperback (OCoLC)1151079752 TxAuBib rda Box, C. J, author. Back of beyond / C.J. Box. New York, NY : St. Martin's Paperbacks, [2020] ©2011. 486 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A novel"--Cover. Originally published: 2011. Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes a closer look at the scene of his friend's death, it becomes apparent that foul play is at hand. After years of bad behavior with his deparment, he's in no position to be investigating a homicide, but this man was a friend and Cody's determined to find his killer. 20221102. Detective and mystery fiction.