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Scratchgravel Road [Audio]
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Tricia Fields lives in a log cabin on a small farm with her husband and two daughters. She was born in Hawaii but has spent most of her life in small-town Indiana, where her husband is a state trooper. Her first mystery, The Territory, won the Tony Hillerman Prize and was named a Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Mystery Debut of the Year.

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Nicole Poole is an American actor, award-winning narrator, voice talent, writer and Soundpainter based in New York City and Paris. In addition to audiobooks and voiceovers, her love of theater and jazz has her collaborating regularly with international ensembles such as SPOUMJ, and Anitya. This began with touring with The Royal Shakespeare Company in Tantalus. In the U.S., she's worked with companies ranging from the Tony Award-Winning New Group to the Present Company.

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Fields sounds a warning on industrial dangers and their wide-ranging effects on ordinary people in this engrossing follow-up to her Hillerman Prize-winning debut, The Territory (2011). When Artemis, Tex., police chief Josie Gray comes across unconscious store clerk Cassidy Harper in the desert, Josie also spots the decaying corpse of immigrant Juan Santiago lying nearby, his body bearing sores of unknown origin. Cassidy later claims to have stumbled on Juan while on a walk, though his wallet is found in her car. Josie suspects the involvement of Leo Monaco, Cassidy's deadbeat boyfriend, and Enrico Gomez, a local tough dating a colleague's daughter. Also coming under Josie's scrutiny are Juan's quiet, Spartan life and the activities of Juan's employer, Beacon Pathways, which is cleaning up a hazardous waste site in the area and may be conducting more nefarious operations. A tense climax with a flood, mudslide, explosives, and a possible murderer add to the suspense. Agent: Dominick Abel, Dominick Abel Literary Agency. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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.]-Patricia Ann Owens, Illinois Eastern Community Colls., Mt. Carmel (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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