Lisa Preston. Amazon/Thomas & Mercer, $15.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-503-95232-4
Early in Preston’s mediocre first novel, roofer Daphne Mayfield, who has earned the respect of her colleagues, is sitting on a bench in a Seattle park when elderly Minerva Watts asks for her help. Minerva keeps insisting that the well-dressed woman...
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Lisa Preston. Thomas & Mercer, $15.95 trade paper (380p) ISBN 978-1-5039-3757-4
Childhood traumas reverberate throughout Preston’s (Orchids and Stone) gripping thriller set in Washington State. One night in the woods, eight-year-old Greer Donner runs across a man beating a woman. When the man threatens to kill anyone Greer...
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Lisa Preston. Skyhorse, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5107-3272-8
Horseshoer Rainy Dale, the narrator of this exuberantly quirky series opener from Preston (The Measure of the Moon), becomes a murder suspect after the police inform her that the client for whom she just did a job, Patsy-Lynn Harper, is dead....
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Lisa Preston. Arcade CrimeWise, $25.99 (264p) ISBN 978-1-5107-4911-5
In Preston’s enjoyable sequel to 2018’s The Clincher, Rainy Dale, the intrepid horseshoer of Cowdry, Ore., takes on a new client, rancher Donna Chevigny, whose husband, Cameron, died the previous year in a tractor accident. Rainy welcomes the job as
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Lisa Preston. Arcade CrimeWise, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-950691-76-0
In Preston’s lively third outing for charmingly unpretentious Rainy Dale (after 2019’s Dead Blow), the Oregon horseshoer agrees a few day before her wedding to cook Guy Kittredge, “the jelly to my peanut butter,” to deliver a “bad news bull” to a...
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