REVIEWS
Fields wraps a complex plot and ripped-from-the-headlines social relevance around a terrific heroine, scoring big for women in law enforcement.
There’s a new voice in Western crime fiction—Tricia Fields is the real deal.
A fresh, confident writer of Western crime fiction.
It’s easy to see why Tricia Fields has become one of the authors whom fans of the mystery genre are raving about.
Crime fiction readers who yearn for wide-open spaces, characters with real heartbeats, and stories that ring true will welcome Fields.
Praise for The Territory
The Territory provides plenty of thrills for readers, as well as food for thought.
The Territory provides plenty of thrills for readers, as well as food for thought.
Tricia Fields' gritty debut novel about a Texas border town battling a Mexican drug cartel feels like, well, fresh territory for a mystery. The Territory has a lot going for it.
Fields builds suspense with a well-wrought cast of characters who deal with deadly violence that’s particularly frightening for being all-too-believable. And no one does it better than Josie Gray....Readers will want to see much more of her.
Buckle your seatbelts for an off-road trip full of adrenaline. Tough and determined to make her way in today’s Wild West, Josie is the type of police chief you’d want in your hometown, a gutsy new heroine who would be friends with Nevada Barr’s Anna Pigeon and probably Lori Armstrong’s Mercy Gunderson, too.
Praise for Scratchgravel Road
Fields sounds a warning on industrial dangers and their wide-ranging effects on ordinary people in this engrossing follow-up to her Hillerman Prize–winning debut. … A tense climax with a flood, mudslide, explosives, and a possible murderer add to the suspense.
Fields sounds a warning on industrial dangers and their wide-ranging effects on ordinary people in this engrossing follow-up to her Hillerman Prize–winning debut. … A tense climax with a flood, mudslide, explosives, and a possible murderer add to the suspense.
Noteworthy for the delineation of the west Texas desert country and the well-drawn cast of characters; Josie Gray is a protagonist worth following.
Praise for Wrecked
Wrecked is a brutal tale with beauty at its heart. A powerful story driven by the violence of the Mexican drug war, which frequently spills across the border, it’s also about integrity, loyalty, and love. Small town police chief Josie Gray is one hell of a protagonist, and the harsh landscape of west Texas, which she patrols, provides a stunning backdrop to a compelling, often surprising plot. It’s easy to see why Tricia Fields has become one of the authors whom fans of the mystery genre are raving about.
Emotionally taut, building to a breathtaking climax and portraying, in the process, the danger inherent in a Texas border town.
This is a barnburner of a story and held my attention all the way through.
Tricia Fields has proved once again that West Texas noir remains hot--as hot as the desert surrounding Artemis.