When a Texas Ranger is murdered, his fellow Rangers will stop at nothing to find his killer! Lone Star lawmen Sean Kennedy and Levi Mallory follow a cold trail across Texas to track down the man who shot Ranger Thad Dutton, and neither vicious outlaws nor a ruthless town boss will keep them from settling the score for their fallen comrade. Acclaimed Western author James J. Griffin returns with another action-packed, gunsmoke-laced tale of the Texas Rangers with DEATH STALKS THE RANGERS.
“James J. Griffin provides another exciting Western
adventure in Death Stalks the Rangers, as new hero Sean Kennedy uses fast guns
and fists, along with a keen intellect, to solve the mystery of a fellow Texas
Ranger's murder. As always, Griffin gives the reader plenty of action, colorful
characters, and a vivid sense of the Texas frontier.”
Looks like a lot of fun on this adventure, Jim.
ReplyDeleteI very much enjoyed your short story, A Ranger Named Rowdy, and look forward to this novel.
Keith
Sounds good, Jim!!
ReplyDeleteI will guarantee Death Stalks the Rangers is the only Western ever written where the main character is a Texas Ranger who quotes from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English! There's also a saloon owner who loves Edgar Allen Poe, and you'll get to meet two of the most unusual "bar birds" you've ever come across. Not to mention plenty of action, some beautiful women, and a real mystery tied around the dead Ranger's missing belt.
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I'd also like to rededicate the book to my dear friend Gale Buffum, who did the cover illustration (for the print version from Dancing Fox) which inspired the story. Her son was the model for the Ranger on the cover. Sadly, Gale passed away a few months before the book came out, so she never got to see the final version.
Keith,
ReplyDeleteAs a doctor, you'll probably really appreciate the first chapter. There's a pretty thorough description of Ranger Kennedy examining the dead Ranger's body to determine time and manner of death, by 1870s standards, of course. Have to credit my Ranger buddy Jim Huggins for his help with that scene. As a forensics expert, he provided the expertise I needed to make the scene accurate.
Jim Griffin
Certainly sounds like my sort of story, Jim.
ReplyDeleteKeith
Jim, the Chaucer content also intrigues me. One of my historical crime novels, The Pardoner's Crime, set in the year 1322 is based on The Pardoner from The Canterbury Tales. I am a Chaucer fan.
ReplyDeleteJK Rowling alao used The Pardoner's Tale in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Keith
Keith, I was an English major in college. The professor for our English literature class was a real eccentric old lady. One of our required assignments was to memorize the first chapter of the Canterbury Tales as originally written, in middle English. Even today, over 40 years later, I can still recite the first few lines by heart. Knew that would come in handy some day, never imagined it would be as part of the plot in a Western novel. "Whan that Aprille...."
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