Scratchgravel Road: A Mystery (Josie Gray Mysteries)

Scratchgravel Road: A Mystery (Josie Gray Mysteries) by Fields, Tricia. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781250021366.

The twisty follow-up to the Hillerman Prize–winning The Territory, featuring tough smalltown Texas police chief Josie Gray It was pure luck that Josie Gray spotted Cassidy Harpers car, abandoned on the side of the road. If she hadnt, then shed never have found Cassidy, lying nearly dead of heatstroke on the desert sand beside the body of a Mexican immigrant. But Cassidy cant explain why she was out for a walk in the midday desert heat, let alone how she happened upon the corpse. And once Josie sees the ominous wounds on the mans body, she knows she needs to find the answer fast, before her own life is in danger. Tricia Fieldss The Territory marked her as talented new author of Southwestern crime, and Scratchgravel Road marks an inventive new mystery set in the unique world of smalltown Texas.