Want to Read: Strong Cold Dead by Jon Land

Jon Land is a superb author. I've read several of the books in his Caitlin Strong series. Here's the newest one, which arrived on my doorstep this week.

The terrorist organization ISIS is after a deadly toxin that could be the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. The same toxin holds the potential to eradicate cancer. There is a frantic race to see who can get to it first, even as Caitlin Strong begins to assemble the disparate pieces of a deadly puzzle.

At the center of that puzzle is an Indian reservation where a vengeful tycoon is mining the toxin, disguising his effort as an oil-drilling operation. This is the same reservation where Caitlin’s great-great-grandfather, also a Texas Ranger, once waged a similar battle against the forces of John D. Rockefeller.

In her highest-stakes adventure yet, Caitlin Strong faces off against a host of adversaries that just might include the beautiful Comanche girl with whom the son of her ex-outlaw boyfriend Cort Wesley Masters has fallen in love, along with a mythic monster culled from Native American folklore that the tribe believes has risen to protect its land. The lives of those Caitlin loves most are threatened by the villains she’s pursuing; her own moral code is challenged. The fate of both the country and the state she loves are dangling on the precipice of a strong cold death.

Print Length: 351 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0765335131
Publisher: Forge Books (October 4, 2016)
Publication Date: October 4, 2016
Sold by: Macmillan
Language: English
ASIN: B01CXNZDIU

Want to Read: Exiles on Main Street by Lisa Kleinholz

Met this author at a writer's conference a few years ago and grabbed this book. Really want to read it.



The Scoop Of A Lifetime

Working as a reporter for a small-town newspaper can be a bit dull for a glamorous former rock 'n' roll writer like Zoe Szabo. But after life in the fast lane nearly killed her musician husband and their marriage, she believes Greymont, Massachusetts, is the perfect place to slow down, raise their two children, and fall back in love.

Still, there's nothing like a good scoop to get Zoe moving again, and she's in overdrive when the body of an Asian immigrant is discovered at the mall. Who wanted her dead and why? As she probes for answers, the clues become more complex.Is the murder part of an anti-immigrant backlash--a yankee local angry enough to kill--or does the truth go farther back, to a blood grudge rooted far from this quaint New England town that Zoe thought was so safe?



Publisher: Harpercollins (Mm); First Edition edition (October 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061014117
ISBN-13: 978-0061014116

Want to Read: Gray Justice by Alan McDermott

Gray Justice is the fast-paced debut thriller from Alan McDermott. It tells the story of Tom Gray, an ex-soldier running a successful business until his world falls apart. His young son is killed by a joy rider and his wife, overcome with grief, takes her own life months later. When his son’s killer walks free from court, Gray decides that the current justice system needs an overhaul, and kidnaps five serial offenders. Parading them on the internet, he lets the people of Britain decide if they should live or die, and the government are powerless to stop him. Gray believes he has the perfect plan, right down to the last detail, but one man travels four thousand miles to prove him wrong in an explosive climax.

Series: A Tom Gray Novel (Book 1)
Paperback: 242 pages
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (January 7, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1477818499
ISBN-13: 978-1477818497

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Want to Read: Maggie Dove: A Mystery by Susan Breen

Born from my lengthy "Want to Read" list on Goodreads, I'll feature some of the books from that list here. 

Susan Breen introduces a charming new series heroine in this poignant and absorbing cozy mystery with a bite. Maggie Dove thinks everyone in her small Westchester County community knows everyone else’s secrets. Then murder comes to town.

When Sunday School teacher Maggie Dove finds her hateful next-door neighbor Marcus Bender lying dead under her beloved oak tree—the one he demanded she cut down—she figures the man dropped dead of a mean heart. But Marcus was murdered, and the prime suspect is a young man Maggie loves like a son. Peter Nelson was the worst of Maggie’s Sunday School students; he was also her late daughter’s fiancé, and he’s been a devoted friend to Maggie in the years since her daughter’s death.

Maggie can’t lose Peter, too. So she sets out to find the real murderer. To do that, she must move past the grief that has immobilized her all these years. She must probe the hidden corners of her little village on the Hudson River. And, when another death strikes even closer to home, Maggie must find the courage to defend the people and the town she loves—even if it kills her.

Available for Kindle