What is Tricia Fields reading?

Featured at Writers Read: Tricia Fields, author of Wrecked.

Her entry begins:

While I’m in the final editing stages of writing one novel, I start researching for the next. My research tends to settle around the technical aspects of the topic I’m writing about; typically non fiction, and too often dry and uninspired. Not so with the book I just finished.

I never thought I would compare another writer to Edward Abbey, but Philip Connors is in the same class with his book, Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout. His style is much less confrontational, but his love for the outdoors and for contemplative silence comes through as clearly as Abbey’s own love for nature. Connors writes about his time spent as a fire lookout in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico.

What I most appreciated about Connors was his honest approach to...[read on]

About Wrecked, from the publisher:

Police Chief Josie Gray is living every cop’s worst nightmare: a murder suspect who she knows personally. Even worse, it’s her longtime boyfriend, Dillon Reese.

Dillon’s secretary has been murdered, and now Dillon’s disappeared. Josie has no choice but to relinquish the investigation to a fellow officer, giving up control of a case that matters more than any other. As suspicions split the department, Josie struggles with her choices on the night she last saw Dillon. If she had acted on her instincts, would the innocent woman still be alive?

Unable to stay on the sidelines, Josie investigates on her own terms--and uncovers a plot that could bring the killer millions. Now she must make a choice between her oath as an officer and her personal desire to get revenge.

Tricia Fields’s Wrecked continues the Hillerman Prize-winning mystery series that captures the unique landscape and characters who populate the small towns of West Texas.

Learn more about the book and author at Tricia Fields's website and blog.

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