Betsy Thornton, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-28041-3
There are real ghost towns near Cochise County, Ariz., where Chloe Newcombe lives and works as a victims' advocate in this darkly satisfying mystery, Thornton's third (after The Cowboy Rides Away
and High Lonesome Road). And there are...
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Betsy Thornton, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-33319-5
At the start of Thornton's fourth intricate puzzle to feature Chloe Newcombe (after 2002's Ghost Towns
), the Cochise County, Ariz., victim's advocate is assigned to assist artist Heather Stephens after Heather's husband, carpenter...
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Betsy Thornton, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-35759-7
Like Thornton's Chloe Newcombe mystery series (Dead for the Winter
, etc.), this wonderfully old-fashioned stand-alone is set in Cochise County, Ariz. When Jackson Williams, an unambitious and washed-out poet, is arrested for the murder of his...
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Betsy Thornton, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-312-38062-5
When workmen uncover skeletal remains behind a retaining wall in Thornton's well-crafted fifth mystery to feature Cochise County, Ariz., victim advocate Chloe Newcombe (after 2004's Dead for the Winter
), the body turns out to be that of...
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Betsy Thornton, Minotaur, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-60205-5
Thornton's gripping sixth mystery featuring victim's advocate Chloe Newcombe (after 2008's A Song for You) charts her earlier years, long before she moved to Arizona. Two years after her older brother, James, died of AIDS in California, Chloe, then...
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Betsy Thornton, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14301-5
For Chloe Newcomb, introduced in this first novel, coming of age and middle age seem to be hitting at about the same time. A former member of the 1960s counterculture, Chloe has just quit her job as a financial investigator in New York City for an...
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Betsy Thornton, Author Thomas Dunne Books $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-26861-9
Following her impressive debut, The Cowboy Rides Away (1996), Thornton triumphs in this sequel, which makes even minor characters memorable and firmly places them in the stark but weighted atmosphere of the Southwest desert. Chloe Newcombe, a victim'
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Betsy Thornton. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8498-5
Kate Waters, the heroine of this lackluster first in a new series from Thornton (A Song for You and five other Chloe Newcomb mysteries), decides to start over in the desert city of Dudley, Ariz., after leaving volatile poet Harry Light. When a...
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