Today I'm highlighting Strange Country - the third and final book in the Wide Open trilogy by Deborah Coates. The book went on sale Tuesday, so read on about for more info on the books and then enter to win the entire trilogy!!
Strange Country (Wide Open #3)
Author: Deborah Coates
Genre: Rural Fantasy/Mystery
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Publisher: Tor Books
Description:
STRANGE COUNTRY
by Deborah Coates is the final
book in a haunting supernatural murder
mystery trilogy set in the vast rural backroads and byways of the
American Midwest, a setting and way of life that is rarely explored in
contemporary and urban fantasy.
After
facing Death himself and banishing a reaper bent on the destruction of
Sheriff's deputy Boyd Davies, Hallie had hoped things would finally
settle down;
that she and Boyd would find more time to spend together, that ghosts
would stay in cemeteries where they belong. But hopes are so easily
dashed.
On
a wintry night in mid-December, someone shoots and kills a woman with a
high-powered rifle. Not long after, another of West Prairie City’s
citizens is killed
in exactly the same way, drawing the attention of federal
investigators. But the connection between the victims is not easy to
uncover....
Meanwhile,
Hallie Michaels finds a note pinned to her front porch. “What do you
fear most?” it asks, accompanied by a set of map coordinates. Over the
next
few days she receives an anonymous phone call, an unsigned letter left
for her at the local ag supply, and finally a note stuck to her kitchen
table with a carving knife, all asking the same question and with the
same set of coordinates. The mysteries are
piling up, and time is short...Will Hallie be able to get to the bottom of this, before the body count rises again?
Praise:
“Coates
plots this novel as a conventional murder mystery, with the usual
paranormal activity serving as colorful filigree to a well-wrought tale
of Midwestern noir.”
—Publishers Weekly
—Publishers Weekly
“Twin Peaks meets Dean Koontz in this tale of a windswept northern prairie town beset by eerie events. Deborah Coates offers
a pitch-perfect sense of place, an uncanny knack for dialogue, and a complex heroine who’s mad, sad, tenacious, and tough.”
—Sharon Shinn, national bestselling author of
Troubled Waters
Check out the first two books:
(click on the cover to go to Goodreads)
DEBORAH COATES is the author of Wide Open, Deep Down, and Strange Country. She lives in Ames, Iowa, and works for Iowa State University. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov's and Strange Horizons, as well as Year's Best Fantasy 6, Best Paranormal Romance, and Best American Fantasy.
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The fantastic people at Tor are offering (1) reader the entire WIDE OPEN trilogy! Open to US/CAN only!
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