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Jensen, T S

 
9781972052020: Death on the Rig
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ISBN 10: 1972052020 ISBN 13: 9781972052020
Editorial: T.S. Jensen Books, 2026

Sinopsis

Sheriff Milt Kingston has worked oil deaths before. Men slip, harnesses fail, and the company safety man writes it up neat. But when roughneck Jared Pike turns up impaled on a derrick beam under a clear winter sky, the scene won't lie the way the paperwork wants it to. The latch is wrong. The weld is fresh. And Jared was the careful one.

In a Basin where the Church, the rigs, and the courthouse all share the same potluck tables, calling a death "suspicious" sends ripples. Company supervisors push for an accident ruling. Ward leaders talk about keeping the peace. Milt's own family feels the strain as neighbors pull back and a fast, generous settlement tempts Jared's widow into silence.

Milt and his deputy, Clara Ray, follow what they can touch and prove: tool marks on steel, grease on a rail, a backdated weld receipt, phantom "safety bonuses" in a payroll ledger, and a camera that just happens to go dark. Every clue points higher than a roughneck with a temper. To solve Jared's murder, Milt will have to walk a tight line between the law he swore to uphold and the community that raised him-and confront a safety manager who treats one "bad fall" as the cost of doing business.

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T. S. Jensen grew up on a farm five miles out of a two-stoplight town in the heart of Utah's Uinta Basin, where most directions were given by wellheads, fence lines, and stack yards. His father worked in his own glass and paint shop in town and ran the family farm in Hancock Cove while serving in every lay church calling in the list on Sundays; his mother kept books for the farm and made wedding cakes and dresses.As a boy, Tyler listened from the hallway while adults lowered their voices over layoffs, bad accidents, and quiet marital troubles. Summers were spent trailing friends along irrigation ditches, into cedar and sage brush covered hills, and past a shuttered alum mine, where family stories about "how things really happened" never quite matched the official plaques. As an adult, Jensen studied English at Utah State University and spent 30 years in the technology sector on the Wasatch Front.Church meetings and work all began to blur together as different rooms where the same arguments about loyalty, livelihood, and truth played out. Jensen now writes full-time from his home in Utah County, within easy driving distance of all the places that capture his imagination. He shares a home kept clean by his lovely wife and enjoys spending time with his four adult children and two grandchildren.His stories grow out of a conviction that landscapes remember what communities try to forget, and that ordinary people, caught between family, faith, and the law, are where the most enduring questions live.

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Editorial
T.S. Jensen Books
Año de publicación
2026
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1972052020
ISBN 13 
9781972052020
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
422
Contacto del fabricante
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9781972052006: Death on the Rig: Uintah Basin Mysteries, a Milt Kingston Novel: 1

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  1972052004 ISBN 13:  9781972052006
Editorial: T.S. Jensen Books, 2026
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