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Scratchgravel Road
Minotaur: St. Martin's. Mar. 2013. 288p. ISBN 9781250021366. $24.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250022783. MYS
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Fresh from fighting a Mexican drug cartel (the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning The Territory), small-town Texas police chief Josie Gray finds herself facing myriad new adventures. After discovering the dead body of a Mexican immigrant in the desert, Josie seeks connections between him and several members of the local community including a former employee of the police department, the daughter of a police deputy, an unemployed college science professor, and the company cleaning up a local nuclear facility. Full of nonstop action, the plot not only involves Josie's careful investigative work but also takes her across the border to save a young girl. Still, the heart of the story lies at the abandoned nuclear plant, which is threatened by floods. For Josie, it's now a race against Mother Nature and a murderer.
VERDICT Fields's second crime novel will be a sure hit with mystery fans who miss the late Hillerman and readers who love contemporary Westerns. [See Prepub Alert, 10/8/12.]
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