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{"id":3204,"date":"2023-11-25T10:45:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T10:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2023-11-25T11:13:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T11:13:07","slug":"texas-reads-mystery-anita-dickason-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=3204&lang=ar","title":{"rendered":"Texas Reads Mystery with Anita Dickason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas-connected mystery roundup<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{382ecafc-0cd5-4c37-bb42-212b88bb9544}{174}\" paraid=\"2109307828\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Welcome to <em>Texas Reads Mysteries<\/em>, where I get to share my love of books.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{382ecafc-0cd5-4c37-bb42-212b88bb9544}{184}\" paraid=\"1682694980\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{382ecafc-0cd5-4c37-bb42-212b88bb9544}{188}\" paraid=\"1365064704\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Cops and crime top my TBR list for this month from two authors with impressive backgrounds. Both books deliver intriguing plots with cops on both sides of the law. Buckle up for these crime thrillers&#8217; unexpected twists, turns, and high-stakes danger.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{382ecafc-0cd5-4c37-bb42-212b88bb9544}{188}\" paraid=\"1365064704\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3F3H-tL4ri8?si=ATQ947y5UdHh1qcs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{382ecafc-0cd5-4c37-bb42-212b88bb9544}{216}\" paraid=\"1577897588\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{382ecafc-0cd5-4c37-bb42-212b88bb9544}{224}\" paraid=\"1219833621\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Murder So Foul&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{382ecafc-0cd5-4c37-bb42-212b88bb9544}{230}\" paraid=\"1436086700\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">By Larry Enmon&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{382ecafc-0cd5-4c37-bb42-212b88bb9544}{238}\" paraid=\"1169568538\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{382ecafc-0cd5-4c37-bb42-212b88bb9544}{242}\" paraid=\"339593618\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Nothing could prepare them for what awaited in the depths of the Great Trinity Forest.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{382ecafc-0cd5-4c37-bb42-212b88bb9544}{248}\" paraid=\"560633247\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{382ecafc-0cd5-4c37-bb42-212b88bb9544}{253}\" paraid=\"284865882\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/05b_tx_reads_murder_so_foul.jpeg\" style=\"border-width: 5px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: left; width: 175px; height: 275px;\">The rich smell of hot, wet earth mixed with the fetid undertone of decaying flesh hit Detective Rob Soliz as soon as he left his vehicle. He thought that was the worst of it\u2014then he <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">encountered a scene of such depravity he instinctively thought of leaving the force. It was too much for even a seasoned veteran to take in.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{382ecafc-0cd5-4c37-bb42-212b88bb9544}{253}\" paraid=\"284865882\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{8}\" paraid=\"1367150754\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">But it was the bloody, crumpled newspaper clipping at the scene that made his partner&#8217;s blood run cold. Detective Frank Pierce stared at the blurry picture through the evidence bag\u2014right into the eyes of his lover.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{18}\" paraid=\"374475350\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{22}\" paraid=\"1308391189\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">With the oppressive heat of August and looming bureaucratic turf wars, the two detectives must race against time to find the monster responsible for this Murder So Foul.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{28}\" paraid=\"1018916115\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{34}\" paraid=\"601841980\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">If you enjoyed James Patterson&#8217;s <em>Murder Games<\/em>, you&#8217;ll love this thrilling and suspenseful story.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{44}\" paraid=\"661341944\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{52}\" paraid=\"571143155\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">About the Author&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{58}\" paraid=\"1658619029\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{62}\" paraid=\"1757947008\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/larry-enmon.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Enmon<\/a><\/strong> was born in Shelby County, Texas. He received his degree in law enforcement and police science in 1975, and then joined the Houston Police Department, where he worked in both the patrol and vice divisions. In 1981 he accepted a job with the U.S. Secret Service and traveled the country and world on protective missions. His last assignment was as the Secret Service liaison agent to the FBI\u2019s Joint Terrorism Task Force in Dallas. He received training from both the FBI and CIA in investigating cases involving suspected weapons of mass destruction. He retired in 2012.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{62}\" paraid=\"1757947008\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{119}\" paraid=\"1943947726\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">In addition to his political thrillers, he is also the author of the Rob and Frank mystery series.&nbsp;Larry lives in North Texas, where he and his spouse enjoy getting away from it all at their rural East Texas ranch and North Carolina mountain cabin.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{145}\" paraid=\"1711859815\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{149}\" paraid=\"1744495689\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{163}\" paraid=\"399669113\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Kiss and Kill in Texas&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{173}\" paraid=\"319397964\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">An Al Quinn Novel, Book 8&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{183}\" paraid=\"462716379\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">By Russ Hall&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{189}\" paraid=\"755574264\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{193}\" paraid=\"86036983\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Trouble on the Third Coast&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{193}\" paraid=\"86036983\" style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{199}\" paraid=\"872157916\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/05a_tx_reads_kiss_and_kill_in_texas.jpg\" style=\"border-width: 5px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: left; width: 175px; height: 279px;\"><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{203}\" paraid=\"519005744\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Al Quinn turns down a musician friend\u2019s request to stay at Al\u2019s home, which is now filled with his recent bride, Fergie, his brother\u2019s wife and child, and a dog. Al\u2019s refusal has consequences that lead to the musician being murdered.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{214}\" paraid=\"656395007\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{218}\" paraid=\"229815086\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">The trail to make things right takes Al and his family down to the Texas coast, where they face their most dangerous mission. The small Gulf Coast town of Port Dexter is as prickly as the cactus-filled countryside. Every law enforcement officer appears to be corrupt, and an elite killer team is loose in the area. Even worse, they are all out to erase Al and his entire family.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{228}\" paraid=\"1980545642\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{244}\" paraid=\"1312985839\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">About the Author&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{250}\" paraid=\"453183113\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{04214e56-876b-431e-8fce-d98eab546fa9}{254}\" paraid=\"862581362\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">A writer of mysteries, thrillers, westerns, poetry, and nonfiction books, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/russhall.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russ Hall<\/a> <\/strong>has had more than thirty-five books published. He lives and writes on the north shore of Lake Travis near Austin, Texas, where he hikes, fishes, and lives with far more books than the anti-hoarder groups would approve.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{288179a5-921e-4b74-909d-61e26127eac6}{10}\" paraid=\"1930810029\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{288179a5-921e-4b74-909d-61e26127eac6}{14}\" paraid=\"42392296\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">In 1996 he won the Nancy Pickard Mystery Fiction Award for short fiction (awarded by the Red Herring Mystery Magazine of Kansas State University).&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{288179a5-921e-4b74-909d-61e26127eac6}{20}\" paraid=\"1681305288\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{288179a5-921e-4b74-909d-61e26127eac6}{24}\" paraid=\"176726386\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">In 2011 he was awarded the Sage Award by the Barbara Burnett Smith Mentoring Authors Foundation. This award is given to the mentoring author who demonstrates an outstanding spirit of service in mentoring, sharing and leading others in the mystery writing community.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{288179a5-921e-4b74-909d-61e26127eac6}{46}\" paraid=\"950939322\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{288179a5-921e-4b74-909d-61e26127eac6}{50}\" paraid=\"916862850\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">In 2014 he won first place in the Austin International Poetry Festival.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{288179a5-921e-4b74-909d-61e26127eac6}{64}\" paraid=\"1820941868\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{288179a5-921e-4b74-909d-61e26127eac6}{68}\" paraid=\"886745968\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">In 2015 the Writers&#8217; League of Texas awarded <em>To Hell and Gone in Texas<\/em> its Fiction Discovery Prize.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{288179a5-921e-4b74-909d-61e26127eac6}{82}\" paraid=\"701448133\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{288179a5-921e-4b74-909d-61e26127eac6}{90}\" paraid=\"2105321346\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">My kind of books!&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas-connected mystery roundup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1311,813,830,839,1416],"class_list":["post-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anitadickason","tag-lone-star-literary-life","tag-lonestarliterarycom","tag-mystery","tag-texasreadsmystery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}