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Berkley Prime Crime
April 2002
Featuring: Chloe Newcomb
256 pages
ISBN: 0425184552
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Mystery
In her debut novel, The Cowboy Rides Away, Betsy
Thornton amazed reviewers with her vivid description
of Cochise County, AZ and the people who live there. Now
five years later readers are taken back to the harshness
of the desert and to Chloe Newcomb, a victim advocate with
the Cochise County Attorney's Office. Chloe's
responsibilities include counseling those who have
witnessed an act of violence or whose lives have been
affected by violence.Her latest assignment is to counsel a
woman who found the body of the county's bookmobile driver
riddled with bullets.Chloe has been on calls like this
before, but she is not prepared for the shock of knowing
the victim. Erica Hill, a flamboyant and independent
woman, was once a friend of Chloe's beloved deceased
brother. Chloe hadn't seen Erica in years until a few
months earlier when Erica showed up at one of her
volunteer training sessions. Full of guilt over not
keeping in touch with Erica, Chloe embarks on an
independent investigation. Her search involves Erica's
teenage son, her jealous sister and a defense lawyer who
seems to take an overly strong interest in the case.What
Chloe discovers is a secret so dark that even after
Erica's death it still has the power to damage the lives
of everyone around her.
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