Hunting Season

by Dennis Herrick

Overview

A short story of 10 pages. An Indian from Jémez Pueblo is shot and killed while hunting for rabbits to feed his family. An Albuquerque newspaper reporter thinks a drug dealer is to blame. But because the police think the shooting is just a hunting accident, it's up to the reporter to prove what really happened. This short story won the 2004 Tony Hillerman Mystery Writing Contest and was published in Cowboys & Indians magazine. Its illustration is by book-cover artist Peter Thorpe.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013810389
Publisher:	Dennis Herrick
Publication date:	12/30/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	12 KB

About the Author

Dennis Herrick won the 2004 Tony Hillerman Writing Contest and the 2010 Society of Southwestern Authors Writing Contest. His short stories about Native Americans have been published in several magazines. He and his wife live on the west bank of the Rio Grande between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. A former newspaper reporter and publisher, he taught for ten years on the journalism faculty of the University of New Mexico.