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Book Reviews BOOK REVIEWS ter Award recipient Robert J. Conley can the main character ride out in the FICTION won three Spur Awards, was chosen middle of the night, traveling for less Oklahoma Writer of the Year and was than an hour, then track down the bad C.J. BOX inducted into the Oklahoma Profes- guys? In the dark? And who exactly is Wolf Pack: A Joe Pickett Novel sional Writers Hall of Fame in 1996 the ghostly “Bigfoot”? That mystery is G.P. Putnam’s Sons and the Western Writers Hall of Fame never solved clearly. Despite the glitches Hardcover, 384 pages, $27 in 2015. His widow, Evelyn L. Conley, and head-scratchers in this story, Penguin.com has collected speeches, unpublished Crownover’s story is interesting. short stories and a short play that reveal Three people (and a dog) are mur- – Melody Groves the Cherokee historian, novelist and ra- dered in Arizona. We don’t know why, conteur at his finest. Some of the stories BUCK EDWARDS only that the scene is marked by its Shootout at Lost River are contemporary – “Plastic Indian” is viciousness. Meanwhile, Joe Pickett, hilarious – while a few are historical. Self-published who has been reinstated as a Wyoming All showcase Conley’s matter-of-fact Paperback, 197 pages, $10 game warden, is communicating with Amazon.com prose and his ability to often blend com- his counterpart in another district. It edy, pathos, longing and understanding. No. 6 in the Marshal Boone Crowe seems wildlife, weakened from the series set in Wyoming, Shootout at Lost winter, are being chased by drones until CAROL WRIGHT CRIGGER River is a traditional mix of gunfight- they die. But when the game wardens Five Days, Five Dead ers, lawmen, cowboys, miners, rustlers, try to trace who is doing it, they run up Five Star Publishing ranchers and standard bad guys. against the Department of Justice and Hardcover, 282 pages, $25.95 the FBI. Being told to stop investigating Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar W. M I C H A E L F A R M E R The Last Warrior does not go over well. And meanwhile, China Bohannon is one tough lady. the wolf pack gathers. This fast-moving Feminine and proper, she is resource- Five Star Publishing story, maybe the best of the Joe Pickett ful and independent. Though the other Hardcover, 380 pages, $25.95 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar novels, is edge-of-your-seat exciting, the operatives at the Doyle & Howe Detec- characters are well-developed, the scene tive Agency consider China an office Michael Farmer brings the voice of setting is on point, and the conclusion is fixture, she proves her mettle in investi- the Mescalero Apache to life. The story completely fitting. gating kidnapping and murder, the .32 of Yellow Boy, a character throughout – Carol Crigger in her pocket and faithful dog, Nimble, this series, reveals turn-of-last-century JAMES CLAY close by. While the male detectives are Apache faced with changing life styles. Devil’s Due away, China wrestles with the baffling It tells of determined ignorance from autocratic government overseers, but Self-published disappearance of a woman whose sister Trade paperback, 117 pages, $4.99 appears alternately fearful, suspicious also the determination of the Apache Amazon.com and unconcerned. When the kidnap- to maintain their way of life and their per demands ransom, China and her dignity. Farmer’s attention to land as a Rance Dehner, James Clay’s straight- partners, after they return, must decide character, drawn with insightful clarity, shooting Old West detective, is back in whether the perpetrator will exchange puts the reader there. My only criticism action. This time Dehner arrives in a the hostage for money or whether he is the pace. Yellow Boy is precise in his town called Devil’s Due, where Beau intends other, perhaps deadly, results. thoughts, actions and deeds. He rarely Rawlins rules the roost and Dehner An intriguing, light murder mystery, if changes speeds, which makes the read- finds himself trying to stop a range murder can be called light. ing a bit plodding. A chase scene near war between cattlemen and nesters. – Harlan Hague the end perks things up. Yep, it’s a plot as old as Westerns, but – Melody Groves Clay writes with an easy style, is adept JAMES D. CROWNOVER at describing gunfights and the climax Sheep Pen Cañon MARCUS GALLOWAY proves to be quite a shocker. Fans of Five Star Publishing Snake Oil: It All Comes Around Clay’s series, or fans of old-fashioned Hardcover, 324 pages, $25.95 Five Star Publishing Westerns, will enjoy the ride. Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar Hardcover, 264 pages, $25.95 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar ROBERT J. CONLEY Award-winner James Crownover Plastic Indian: A Collection of Stories and writes dialogue with the best of them. Professor Henry Whiteoak will Other Writings It’s clear, crisp, spot-on and delightful. keep you wondering if he is an outlaw, University of Oklahoma Press Sheep Pen Cañon, however, jumps from killer, hero, snake-oil salesman or all of Trade paperback, 158 pages, $19.95 scene to scene without using a clutch. It them. The story will keep you guess- OUPress.com feels more like an event mishmash, the ing as bounty hunters and lawmen hunt Whiteoak, who is hiding in plain Before his death in 2014, Owen Wis- writing style taking leaps of faith. How APRIL 2019 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 25 sight. Whiteoak saves the life of Dylan many side stories thrown in, and gratu- page-turner that will keep your attention Garviss, who was wounded robbing the itous sex is sprinkled throughout. riveted. However, I found a great deal of Broker and Exchange building. Feel- – Sandy Whiting suspension of disbelief necessary. Forty- ing obligated, Dylan, an old friend and five years and people are supposed to Danielle, who has known Whiteoak JIM JONES remember what happened on such-and- The Lights of Cimarrón a long time, try to protect the profes- such a night? Really? sor and his colorful wagon. Whiteoak Five Star Publishing – Carol Crigger becomes devastated when he hears that Hardcover, 306 pages, $25.95 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar he killed an innocent child in one of his DAVID C. NOONAN The Man From Misery robberies and pursues the truth to find Tommy Stallings becomes sheriff of out how the child died. This novel keeps Colfax County, New Mexico after the Five Star Publishing your interest. former sheriff retires. Stallings inher- Hardcover, 268 pages, $25.95 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar – Lowell F. Volk its the problem of outlaws, who are brutally killing ranchers and their hands After shooting a 12-year-old girl who CHARLOTTE HINGER while stealing their livestock. Being new is about to be burned to death, Emmet The Healer’s Daughter to the job, Stallings turns to the former Honeycut is disdained by the town even Five Star Publishing sheriff for help and advice on how to after he is found not guilty of murder. Hardcover, 405 pages, $25.95 capture the outlaws – and to clear him Saved by Major Kingston, Honeycut’s Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar after being framed of taking a bribe. Jim former commander, Honeycut is asked Steal away to freedom, to own land, Jones does an excellent job showing the to help Kingston recover his niece, who to have the law work for you instead humanistic side of Stallings as he learns has been kidnapped to be sold as a slave. of against you. “Steal away to Nicode- and grows. That is when the adventure begins that mus” and have it all. Bethany Herbert, – Lowell F. Volk will keep you wondering what will hap- a young black woman, does just that. pen next. An entertaining Western with and Weary of caring for a mentally ill white LINELL JEPPSEN JEB several surprises. ROSEBROOK woman, Bethany knows if she doesn’t – Lowell F. Volk No Man’s Land leave while her health allows, she will die in the South. Unfortunately for her Wolfpack Publishing H. LEE PRATT Meghan’s Song and other Southern transplants, the Trade paperback, 196 pages, $8.99 WolfpackPublishing.com promised land of Nicodemus, Kansas, Five Star Publishing turns into nothing more than caves dug Weary Civil War veteran Jack Ballard Hardcover, 367 pages, $25.95 Gale.Cengage.com/FiveStar into the hills, but it is home. With many drifts into a Texas community and rides mouths to feed and not even old leather right into a searing drought, a land feud, This novel answers the call for to boil, survival the first winter is iffy. romance, hard cases, fistfights and gun- expanding the Western genre. A movie With grit and determination, the small fights. Linell Jeppsen, best known for company comes to Jackson Hole, Wyo- band of former slaves build a life of her science-fiction and fantasy fiction, ming, in the mid-1920s to shoot a film freedom. Charlotte Hinger has delivered and screenwriter-novelist Jeb Rose- starring a local girl who made good in a compelling story of endurance and brook, who died last summer, deliver a Hollywood. Meghan, the star’s married backbone. plot as old as dirt, and while this novel sister, working at a dude ranch, falls for – Sandy Whiting won’t score as high as Junior Bonner, the handsome young director, and the Rosebrook’s masterpiece screenplay, star-crossed drama begins. Add a beauti- BONNIE HOBBS the easy writing style will satisfy fans of ful Italian woman who also has designs Mollyfar traditional Westerns. on the director but is also an enforcer Five Star Publishing for her ruthless uncle who has financed MICHAEL McGARRITY Hardcover, 393 pages, $25.95 the movie.
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