The Sky Took Him is a heartwarming, intriguing, commonsense whodunnit that makes you think you know who really did it, then it spins you in a complete turnaround as Donis Casey whirls a new story within this simple one of a man who is dying.  Just when you come up with an answer, she goes in another direction, much like the dry winds of Oklahoma during the dust bowl times.

I love Ms. Casey's ability to show as well as tell a story and make you feel right at home in the center of the living room with her.  She takes something like an old snapshot and weaves a mystery around it and you fall into it like it was real life itself.  She is that comfortable of a writer.  I said all of this before about her other novels, but it bears repeating as she has put her love of her history into all of her works.  I thoroughly enjoyed this great little mystery that does not have the main characters all caught up in the thrill or the challenge of over-active heroism.  It is a very real, down-to-earth, wrenching to the core, story about a way of life that is no more.