{"id":658,"date":"2018-12-31T13:16:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=658"},"modified":"2018-12-31T13:16:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:16:52","slug":"glenn-dromgooles-texas-reads-column-appears-weekly-at-lonestarliterary-com-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

9.18.16\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Three suspenseful novels from Texas authors<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span>J. Todd Scott, a 20-year federal agent with the DEA, <\/span>has written The Far Empty,<\/span><\/a><\/span> a suspenseful first novel set in a fictional small town in the Big Bend area (Putnam, $26 hardcover).<\/p>\n

Sheriff Stanford Ross, called The Judge, rules the town of Murfee with an iron fist. Town residents respect and fear \u2014 him, but his seventeen-year-old son loathes him. The boy believes his father murdered his mother and disposed of the body, while the sheriff has convinced the community that she simply ran off and left them. A previous wife drowned in the bathtub and another one also vanished years ago.<\/p>\n

A new deputy has come to town, a former high school football star in need of a fresh start. When he finds some bones on a remote ranch, he starts asking questions that the sheriff doesn\u2019t really want answered.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, DEA agents are quietly making inquiries of their own until one day when their investigation literally explodes.<\/p>\n

Author Scott moves the story along through the eyes of a variety of characters, including a new teacher in town with a questionable past and a violent deputy sheriff whose weirdness has finally become too much for his buddy and boss, Sheriff Ross.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Debut novel: <\/span>Amy Gentry<\/span> of Austin, a writer who has done volunteer work helping victims of sexual and domestic violence, has written a gripping first novel, Good As Gone<\/span> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $23 hardcover).<\/p>\n

Eight years ago thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was taken from her Houston home at knifepoint in the middle of the night. Her 1ten-year-old sister witnessed the abduction. Julie vanished without a trace.<\/p>\n

English professor Dr. Anna Davalos and her accountant husband, Tom Whitaker, have given up hope after searching for her for years. Jane has moved off to college, but is home for a visit. Then, out of the blue, one evening as they are sitting down to dinner, the doorbell rings. Julie is back.<\/p>\n

Maybe.<\/p>\n

As the story unfolds, Anna has her doubts as she gets confidential reports from a private investigator. Is this really her daughter, Julie, or an impostor who has been singing with a band in Seattle and before that was eking out an existence as a stripper and who-knows-what?<\/p>\n

Who is she, and has she really come \u201chome\u201d or is there another reason why this young\u00a0 woman is in Houston?<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span>New from Sandra Brown:<\/span> Sandra Brown, one of Texas\u2019s all-time best-selling novelists, has a new thriller out this fall \u2014 Sting<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Grand Central Publishing, $26 hardcover).<\/p>\n

Two hit men are sent to kill Jordie Bennett in New Orleans, but one of them kidnaps her instead, takes her to a remote location and demands $2 million from the man who wanted her dead. The kidnapper is brutal, but keeps her alive \u2013 while she tries to come up with a desperation move to get away.<\/p>\n

Well, all is not as it seems, as there are many surprising twists and a few hot sexual scenes as the story develops.<\/p>\n

As always, Brown keeps the action moving and the reader guessing, probably incorrectly, what will come next.<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is More Civility, Please. <\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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