Weather in Texas often is one of two
extremes--- flood or fire. It has been a couple years since the floods came to
Southwest Texas. Now it has been 9 months since rain fell in the desert area
and now wildfire is the threat to Artemis and the surrounding area. The threat
comes from the north and south with Artemis trapped in the middle. Evacuations
are ordered for parts of Arroyo County, but not everyone will agree to leave.
This area of southwest Texas where folks are used to hard times, desert
conditions, and relying on themselves and their ingenuity to survive, makes for
a people to don’t turn away from a fight.
In the aftermath of the fires that
spare the home of Artemis Police Chief Josie Gray, a body is found in the
remains of the badly damaged home of Billy and Brenda Nix. If his wife and
manager, Brenda, is to be believed Billy is about to make it big with a
Nashville music contract. Billy is old school country and sings while playing guitar.
Both he and his wife evacuated, according to some of the locals, but neither
one is answering their cell phone. They may be up in Austin lining up future
events or somewhere else. In the chaos of the evacuation they were seen at
least once, but nobody really knows where they are or why they would not be
answering their cell phones.
The location of the Nixes, the
identity of the body, and figuring out what happened should be Police Chief
Josie Gray’s priority and focus. A focus that isn’t easy to maintain, as thanks
to the events in Wrecked,
her longtime boyfriend has packed up and left. Getting kidnapped by a drug
cartel can kind of put a damper on the whole romance thing. Four months later
and normalcy is a foreign concept for both her and Dillion.
Firebreak is the fourth in a series that began with the award
winning The
Territory. This latest mystery features once again the deep
characters and desert beauty present in the earlier books as well as the
complicated cases Police Chief Josie Gray and her team must solve. This is a
series best read in order as there are references to earlier events in each
novel. The books are very good and so is Firebreak. If this series is new to
you, it will be another year before Tricia Fields has another so get to work as
you have some very good books to read.
Firebreak
Tricia Fields
Minotaur Books (A Thomas Dunne Book)
March 2015
ISBN# 978-1-250-05505-7
Hardback (available in e-book)
288 Pages
$25.99
Material supplied by the good folks
of the Plano Public Library System.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2015
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2 comments:
I read THE TERRITORY and enjoyed it very much, but i haven't been back to this series. Thanks for reminding me, Kevin.
Best to read in order, Larry. A lot of things have happened between that one and this one.
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