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Title:

Midnight crossing : a mystery / Tricia Fields.

Author:

Fields, Tricia, author.

ISBN:

9781250076281

Personal Author:

Fields, Tricia, author.

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

pages.

Content Type:

text

Media Type (RDA):

unmediated

Carrier Type:

volume

Series:

Josie Gray mysteries ; 5

General Note:

"A Thomas Dunne book."

Abstract:

"Police Chief Josie Gray wakes in the middle of the night, sure that she's heard a car slowly passing by her remote homestead. When she goes outside to check, she discovers a woman, mute with shock and terror, hiding on her porch. And when she explores the field nearby, she comes across the body of another young woman, shot and killed. Located on the border of Texas and Mexico, the small town of Artemis has become a way station for the coyotes who ferry immigrants across the Rio Grande. But they usually keep moving north, to cities where they will pass by unnoticed. As Josie investigates the murder and tries to learn the identity of her uninvited houseguest, she discovers that not everyone in Artemis has stayed out of the trafficking business, and someone may play a bigger role than she ever expected. This fifth book in Tricia Fields' Hillerman prize-winning series captures the raw natural beauty of West Texas and the tough, independent people who choose to live at the very edge of the country"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Women police chiefs -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Human trafficking -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Mexican-American Border Region -- Fiction.

Format:

Books

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Summary

Police Chief Josie Gray wakes in the middle of the night, sure that she's heard a car slowly passing by her remote homestead. When she goes outside to check, she discovers a woman, mute with shock and terror, hiding on her porch. And when she explores the field nearby, she comes across the body of another young woman, shot and killed.

Located on the border of Texas and Mexico, the small town of Artemis has become a way station for the coyotes who ferry immigrants across the Rio Grande. But they usually keep moving north, to cities where they can blend into the crowd and pass by unnoticed. Why would these women stick around in Artemis?

As Josie investigates the murder and tries to learn the identity of her uninvited houseguest, she discovers that not everyone in town has stayed out of the trafficking business, and someone may play a bigger role than she ever expected.

The fifth book in Tricia Fields's Hillerman Prize-winning series, Midnight Crossing captures the raw natural beauty of West Texas and the tough, independent people who choose to live at the very edge of the country.

Author Notes

Tricia Fields lives in a log cabin on a small farm with her husband and two daughters. She was born in Hawaii but has spent most of her life in small-town Indiana, where her husband is a state trooper. She won the Tony Hillerman Prize for her first mystery, The Territory, which was also named a Sun-SentinelBest Mystery Debut of the Year, and has been followed by Scratchgravel Road , Wrecked , and Firebreak .

Reviews (3)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In Fields's winning fifth Josie Gray mystery (after 2015's Firebreak), the Artemis, Tex., police chief awakes around 2:00 one morning to find two young women-one shot dead, the other traumatized and scared speechless-practically in her backyard. The cool-headed Josie calls for back up. As the investigation proceeds, Josie juggles a brand new love interest, kidnapping negotiator Nick Santos, and her mother, who's in town on a surprise visit from Indiana. Artemis's mayor, mindful of Josie's previous encounter with the infamous Medrano Cartel, is convinced that the two young women found so close to Josie's house are somehow tied to the gang. As the case begins to unravel, thanks to Josie and assistant Otto Podowski's crackerjack police work, it appears to have tentacles that reach across both state and international borders. Fields wraps a complex plot and ripped-from-the-headlines social relevance around a terrific heroine, scoring big for women in law enforcement. Agent: Dominick Abel, Dominick Abel Literary Agency. (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Kirkus Review

A small-town police chief follows the evidence where it takes her, even at the risk of her career. Josie Gray heads a three-officer police force in the one-stoplight west Texas town of Artemis. But she likes the open spaces and the quiet of the road that she shares with only one other neighbor. When a car drives slowly past her house for the second night in a row, it's not enough to frighten her, but it does make her wish her lover, Nick Santos, weren't off negotiating with a kidnapper in Mexico. Josie thinks it unlikely that anyone would be foolish or desperate enough to ford the Rio Grande so close to her house when there are better, safer places to enter the country illegally. After the car comes back a third time, Josie takes action but not fast enough: she finds the body of a young woman shot in the back in her neighbor's pasture. A second girl is alive but cowering on Josie's porch and too traumatized to speak. With the help of Nick and her dedicated fellow cops, Josie, though distracted by her mother's unexpected visit, pieces together the story of the surviving girl. Isabella Dagati was lured from Guatemala along with four other girls by the promise of a better life in the U.S. Escaping captivity with one of the others just before leaving Mexico, she crossed the border with her fellow prisoner and came on purpose to find Josie. Now one of the girls is dead and the other three are unaccounted for. A revelation about who's behind Isabella's plight pushes Josie to take a step that leaves her with neither power nor authorityonly a stubborn determination to stop the trafficking. Even though Fields (Firebreak, 2015, etc.) still includes indiscriminate details about hair color and fashion choices, she's settled into a brisker style, and her fourth case finds her gutsy cop a little less angst-ridden. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Library Journal Review

Artemis, TX, straddles the border between Mexico and Texas. In his latest adventure, police chief Josie Grey (Fire Break) wakes to the sound of a car passing her remote ranch, then finds a catatonic woman and her dead companion outside. Fields's Tony Hillerman Prize-winning mysteries capture the raw natural beauty of West Texas. [Library marketing.] © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.