Sherry Rankin's "The Killing Plains," the movie

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The Killing Plains is set in the fictional town of Crescent Bluff, a tiny backwater place nestled in the bleak desert landscape of West Texas. It’s true cowboy country, with more cattle than people and more rattlesnakes than cattle—a place still haunted by the spirit of the Wild West and by atrocities past and present.

Houston detective Colly Newland hates the place, but when her former mother-in-law, the matriarch of the powerful Newland family, summons her to Crescent Bluff to investigate a series of particularly heinous murders in which a family member is implicated, Colly complies. She feels responsible for the death of her husband and daughter, and she wants to pay her emotional debt to the Newlands so she can turn her back on them forever.

Colly is a determined, sarcastic, resilient, no-nonsense person driven by a powerful inner moral integrity; she has a big heart, as well, which makes her more vulnerable than she likes, so she hides it behind a tough exterior. My dream actress to play Colly would be Kate Winslet, who seems capable of executing any accent to perfection. I was blown away by her performance in…[read on]

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My Book, The Movie: The Killing Plains.

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