Thank you for joining us on the Virtual Book Tour for Dragon's Revenge, a Mystery Suspense by C.J. Shane (20 November 2018, Rope's End Publishing, 231 pages). This is the second book in the Letty Valdez Mysteries series.
PREVIEW: Check out the book's synopsis and the Kindle Cloud Reader Preview below, as well as full details of the series.
Author C.J. Shane will be awarding an ink drawing of ocotillo on handmade paper in a wooden frame ready to hang with hooks and wire to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour. Please do take part: comment on our post and follow the tour where you will be able to read other excerpts (☀), and reviews (✍).
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Synopsis
When Tucson private detective and Iraq War vet Letty Valdez is hired to investigate a murder, she immediately finds herself targeted by a violent criminal. To find the killer, Letty turns to an old memoir of life in late 19th century Tucson.Clues in the memoir, with its tale of love between two immigrants - one, an Italian widow, and the other, an exiled Chinese revolutionary - launch Letty on a suspense-filled struggle to find answers, to stop the murderer – and to stay alive!
Letty, a Chicana/Native American, has to deal with a mugging, a home invasion and a shootout on the Tohono O’odham Reservation in her attempts to find the criminal who is targeting her. Letty is helped by her friends and family, plus a new canine pal, Teddy the Black Lab sniffer dog.
Like all Letty Valdez Mysteries, there’s excitement, intrigue and a touch of romance in Dragon’s Revenge.
The Series: Letty Valdez Mysteries
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Desert Jade [1]
Desert Jade was named a finalist for Best Suspense-Thriller book, 2018 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.
Tucson Chicana/Native American private investigator and Iraq War veteran Letty Valdez joins forces with an unlikely ally, Chinese police Detective Inspector Zhou Liang Wei, in Desert Jade, a fast-paced mystery-suspense thriller set in the Sonoran Desert.
We meet a migrant lost and out of water in the desert, Chinese triad gangsters engaged in criminal activities on the U.S.-Mexico border, a woman murdered in her backyard, a husband who vanished with a large sum of money, and three abducted young women threatened with sex trafficking.
There's a touch of romance, too, when cop Zhou meets one of Letty's friends. Don't forget Milagro (aka Millie), the runt-sized female pit bull who performs a heroic act and saves a life.
Next after Desert Jade, look for Dragon's Revenge: A Letty Valdez Mystery
[Published 18 November 2017, 260 pages]
Daemon Waters [3]
Letty investigates the murder of an environmentalist, looks for two missing Army vets, and tracks down a vet who has become an assassin. Also there's that other vet, the one with the lop-sided grin that Letty's dog Teddy found in a tree!
[Published August 2019, TBA pages]
About the Author
C.J. Shane is a writer and visual artist in Arizona. In addition to her mystery fiction, she is the author of eight nonfiction books.
Her first fiction book, Desert Jade: A Letty Valdez Mystery is a finalist for Best Suspense-Thriller novel, New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.
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ReplyDeleteThank you so much for hosting me on your blog! I'm late posting because I'm in the Pacific time zone. One of my goals in writing this story was to describe the ethnic diversity and cultural richness of the Borderlands. Thanks, too, for mentioning the new Letty Valdez Mystery, Daemon Waters, to be published August 8.
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