A Time For Killing(1986)

Malcolm DaveyGeorge G. Gilman

Four saddle-weary days out of El Paso, the farmstead was neat and tidy, the land well-worked and the folks welcoming. The only mean thing around came in the bottle of corn liquor that Edge shared with the old-timer whose wife and daughter were cooking up a mess of good hot food.
Pretty much of a close-knit family, thought Edge. The sort who'd hang together in a crisis.
Which came the next morning when Edge woke up with a head throbbing like an engine on a Mississippi riverboat. And found that the family was indeed hanging together — from a tree out front in their own yard.