4 Stars
368 Pages
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books
Genre: Fiction (Adult), General Fiction (Adult), Mystery, Thriller, Police Procedural, Western, Nevada
Porter Beck is the county sheriff of Lincoln County. He and his chief deputy, Tuffy Scruggs, are supervising an authorized wild horse round up. Suddenly the helicopter driving the horses drops from the sky and they realize the pilot was shot. It is the fall of 2020 and COVID is developing quickly. Porter is dealing with his own health issues – his growing blindness. He is questioning his relationship with girlfriend Charlie Blue. He feels she is pulling away from him. His sister, Brinley, is on a camping trip with a youth group when one of the teenage boys leaves the camp. She must find him and bring him back while fighting the symptoms of COVID.
The story has a fast pace, the characters are well developed, and it is written in the third person point of view. The topic of wild horse round ups is somewhat controversial, but the author does an excellent job staying neutral. This is the third book in the series but I was able to follow along without reading the two previous books.
