Shannon Baker. Midnight Ink (www.midnightink.com), $14.99 trade paper (360p) ISBN 978-0-7387-3422-4
Action trumps character development in this fast-moving first in a new series from Baker (Ashes of the Red). A northern Arizona ski resort owner, Nora Abbott, must contend not only with a severe drought but also angry Hopi Indians, a threatened...
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Shannon Baker. Midnight Ink (www.midnightinkbooks.com), $14.99 trade paper (360p) ISBN 978-0-7387-3425-5
In Baker’s excitingly fast-paced second Nora Abbott mystery (after 2013’s Tainted Mountain), the heroine finds a new job that appears safer than her previous stint running a ski resort: she becomes the financial director for the Living Earth Trust,...
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Shannon Baker. Forge, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8544-4
Nebraska rancher Kate Fox Conner has a host of intrusive relatives to contend with in this crowded, somewhat sketchy series launch from Baker (Tattered Legacy and two other Nora Abbot mysteries). All is going well for Kate and her husband, Grand...
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Shannon Baker. Forge, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8547-5
Eccentric, disarmingly human characters lift Baker’s engrossing second mystery featuring Nebraska rancher Kate Fox (after 2016’s Stripped Bare). Less than an hour after Kate is sworn in as sheriff of Grand County, a place “where cattle outnumber...
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Shannon Baker. Severn River, $16.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-64875-419-7
For the engrossing eighth mystery featuring Nebraska sheriff Kate Fox (after 2023’s Double Back), Baker saddles her series protagonist with family drama, political strife, and an allegedly homicidal bull. Kate serves as the chief law enforcement...
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