"Nice working with wood again."
Murphy nodded.  Dusty unplugged her nail gun and took her apron off.  It was five past five, she knew--she had just checked her cell phone for the time--and she needed to pick Travis up.
"You still looking for extra work?"  he asked.
"Yeah."
"I bought an old three-story brownstone, the corner of Madison and Canfield.  Needs to be gutted."

The above, a few lines from Brad Smith's new book, Crow's Landing.  Brad's dialogue is authentic and entertaining.  These are real people.  The author's background knowledge and experience ~ not to mention his humor ~ makes for good reading.  Brad has worked as a "farmer, signalman, insulator, truck driver, bartender, schoolteacher, maintenance mechanic, and carpenter."  We suspect he has run into a few characters along the way.

The author's other books:   Red Means Run, All Hat, Big Man Coming Down the Road, Busted Flush, One-Eyed Jacks, Rises a Moral Man.

Meet and chat with Brad in The Neat Little Bookshop on Saturday, August 18, 1- 3 p.m.