Josie Gray mysteries
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Series
Josie Gray mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"At the end of State Road 170 and just past a ghost town lies Artemis, population 2,500. The townspeople had sought out this remote corner of Western Texas in hopes of living lives of solitude and independence. None of them realized that their small town would become a hot spot for Mexican drug runners, whose turf battles have turned both sides of the Rio Grande into a war zone. Still, many of the locals would rather take the law into their own hands...
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Series
Josie Gray mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"It was pure luck that Josie Gray spotted Cassidy Harper's car, abandoned on the side of the road. If she hadn't, then she'd never have found Cassidy, lying nearly dead of heatstroke on the desert sand beside the body of a Mexican immigrant. But Cassidy can't explain why she was out for a walk in the midday desert heat, let alone how she happened upon the corpse. And once Josie sees the ominous wounds on the man's body, she knows she needs to find...
3) Wrecked
Author
Series
Josie Gray mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books, a Thomas Dunne Book
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When her longtime boyfriend, Dillon, is accused of murdering his secretary, police officer Josie Gray struggles with precinct disputes and memories of the last time she saw Dillon only to discover that she was the actual target in a multimillion-dollar con game.
4) Firebreak
Author
Series
Josie Gray mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books/A Thomas Dunne Book
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Texas is experiencing its worst season of wildfires in a decade, forcing police chief Josie Gray to evacuate the citizens of Artemis. Not everyone makes it out alive, however. In the fire's wake, she discovers the body of someone who never left town, lying dead in the house of a local country music singer. Beside the body lies a syringe carrying traces of heroin. It seems as if the deceased nodded off and then missed the evacuation. But as Josie...
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Series
Josie Gray mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Police Chief Josie Gray wakes in the middle of the night, sure that she's heard a car slowly passing by her remote homestead. When she goes outside to check, she discovers a woman, mute with shock and terror, hiding on her porch. And when she explores the field nearby, she comes across the body of another young woman, shot and killed. Located on the border of Texas and Mexico, the small town of Artemis has become a way station for the coyotes who...
6) The Drummers
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Series
Josie Gray mysteries volume 6
Description
Police Chief Josie Gray's life is complicated when sparks and bullets begin to fly after her small town in Texas is overrun by a community wishing to live "off grid."
The residents of the small town of Artemis are suspicious when a community called The Drummers moves into a local abandoned church. Their leader, Gideon, claims their aim is simple: to live peacefully off the grid without government interference. But when local power substations are...
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Series
Josie Gray mysteries volume 7
Description
The killing of a greyhound breeder and rumors of election fraud during the mayoral race in small-town West Texas has Chief of Police Josie Gray searching for answers.
"Fields's excellent seventh Josie Gray mystery . . . does a masterly job evoking the dry, dusty Lone Star landscape"- Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Mayoral elections are looming in Artemis. One of the candidates, Mike Striker, wants to build a racetrack while the incumbent mayor,...