On Deadly Ground: A J. D. Books Mystery (J.D. Books Series)

kanab, Utah Is Bitterly Divided By The Politics Of Land Management. When Environmentalist David Greenbriar Is Found Dead, County Sheriff, Charley Sutter, Seeks Help From Newly Appointed Law Enforcement Ranger, J. D. Books. Books Discovers That The Victim's Widow Has Been Having An Affair With Lance Clayburn. Physical Evidence Links Clayburn To The Killing. Books Connects Greenbriar's Murder To A Corrupt Kane County Sheriff's Deputy And A Las Vegas Business Conglomerate With Ties To Organized Crime. Enter Peter Deluca, A Very Dangerous Mob Contract Killer, Who Will Eliminate Anyone Who Can Link Him Or His Employer To Greenbriar's Murder. publishers Weekly mining Interests And Conservation Forces Clash In Southern Utah In This Absorbing Whodunit From Norman (the Commission). Shortly After J.d. Books, A New Bureau Of Land Management Law Enforcement Ranger, Returns To His Hometown Of Kanab, The Sheriff Asks Him To Take A Look At A Crime Scene. The Bullet-ridden Body Of David Greenbriar, The Head Of The Escalante Environmental Wilderness Alliance, Was Found Hanging From A Beam In A Barn Used As An Old West Movie Set, Though It’s Clear The Victim Was Shot Elsewhere. A Former Cop Who Left The Denver Police Force Under A Cloud, Books Soon Locates Greenbriar’s Abandoned Suv, With Blood Traces On The Door, Near A Trail Head Miles Away. Greenbriar’s Wife’s Lover, A Fellow Eewa Member, Emerges As The Prime Suspect, But Books Has His Doubts. A Well-crafted Plot With Plenty Of Action, A Likable Hero With A Checkered Past, And A Magnificent Western Setting Make This One A Winner. (mar.) Divkanab, Utah Is Bitterly Divided By The Politics Of Land Management. When Environmentalist David Greenbriar Is Found Dead, County Sheriff, Charley Sutter, Seeks Help From Newly Appointed Law Enforcement Ranger, J. D. Books. Books Discovers That The Victim’s Widow Has Been Having An Affair With Lance Clayburn. Physical Evidence Links Clayburn To The Killing. Books Connects Greenbriar’s Murder To A Corrupt Kane County Sheriff’s Deputy And A Las Vegas Business Conglomerate With Ties To Organized Crime. Enter Peter Deluca, A Very Dangerous Mob Contract Killer, Who Will Eliminate Anyone Who Can Link Him Or His Employer To Greenbriar’s Murder./div After finding a journal kept by Scott Joplin, Brun Campbell hopes to persuade those in power in Sedalia, Mo. to set up a ragtime museum, but instead finds some extremely dangerous people have other ideas that put the life of 17-year-old pianist Alan Chandler in danger When a southern Utah community torn apart by environmentalists, landowners, and businessmen becomes divided even further by the death of a local environmental group leader, the local sheriff turns to a newly-appointed Bureau of Land Management ranger for help. When the body of environmentalist David Greenbriar is found hanging from a beam in a barn--although he was clearly shot to death--Bureau of Land Management law enforcement ranger J.D. Books finds evidence linking another environmentalist to the crime